Las Vegas Ferrari race driving experience review
At Speedvegas in Las Vegas, you can drive exotic luxury cars around a race track at high speed. Or, if you prefer, you can ride along in a Ferrari 458. Here’s a review of the Speedvegas experience.
To skip the review and book the two hour Speedvegas exotic car driving experience for from $199, head here. For the drifting passenger ride-along experience costing from $99, go here.
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- See a Cirque du Soleil show. If picking just one, Ká at the MGM Grand is the most spectacular.
- Take a Grand Canyon helicopter tour. Fly over the extraordinary desert scenery and land inside the canyon.
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- Explore Red Rock Canyon the easy way – on an electric bike tour.
Where is Speedvegas?
For petrolheads, Speedvegas in Las Vegas is something approaching heaven. Around 10 minutes’ drive south of the last of the big Strip resorts, Speedvegas has spared no expense in collating some of the sexiest cars known to man – including a Ferrari 458.
Cars at Speedvegas
Under the scorching blue skies, Porsche Cayman GTXs, Corvette Z06s, Lamborghini Huracáns and more line up along the pit lane of a purpose-built track.
Said track is 2.4km long, includes 12 turns of varying difficulty, and the long home straight is ripe for getting up to speeds of around 210km/h. Bravely, the owners of these cars are prepared to let giddy amateurs drive them around the circuit, with only a pre-spin briefing on where to brake when and an instructor in the passenger seat.
Ride-along experience at Speedvegas
Of course, this is Las Vegas, where you can be two champagne glasses from a helicopter flight and a free bottle of beer offered on hotel check-out to the good before arriving at the course. And for such shambling lushes, who are secretly worried they’d just end up driving around like a terrified grandmother anyway, there is the option of merely playing co-pilot.
It’s perhaps for the best that Steve, one of Speedvegas’ professionals, is in the driver’s seat of the yellow Ferrari 458. “This section here comes up really fast,” he explains as the section comes up really fast. “You need quick reaction times.”
The coaching continues further round the track. “Brake in hard straight lines, not around the corners. And try to make the straightest line from corner to corner.” Approximately 5% of this goes in when merrily tiddly and quite happily enjoying the ride, but it’s a noble effort to impart wisdom nonetheless.
Ferrari driving experience in Las Vegas: Is it thrilling?
While the whizz round is enjoyable, the problem of picking the most glamourous car available quickly becomes apparent. Even at high speeds, the Ferrari glides around the track incredibly smoothly.
That’s partly down to Steve’s driving, but partly because with six figure price tags, such dream cars aren’t designed to offer a jolting, rough-and-ready experience.
The Ferrari ride-along drive is so mellow and easy-going that the thrill is dulled and the fear factor is diminished.
Bookings should be made online.
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