Nevada Races & Spectator Sports

Off-road rallies and on-track auto racing can be found in every corner of the Silver State. From NASCAR race car drivers tearing up the speedway in Las Vegas, NV to world championship off-road races, desert scrambles, Silver State showdowns, and Bonneville Speed Week, in no other place is racing a sport taken more seriously than in Nevada. Other Nevada car races that take the spectator out of the sport is the Silver State Classic—a race where Nevadans and visitors alike can drive a car as fast as they can handle on a closed two-lane public highway from Vegas to Ely. 

World Championship Outhouse Races? Nope, not a typo. And just about anything else—whether it’s a bed, a coffin, a balloon, a zebra, or a camel—consider it raceable in Nevada. From hot rods to hot air balloons, let us be your guide. 

Nevada bike races are just as action-packed as motorsports, too. Only in Nevada will you find Ely’s Race the Rails—running bicycle competitors against a 19th-century locomotive—or bike events like Lincoln County’s Park to Park Pedal Century Ride and the World Human Powered Speed Challenge that beckons international teams from around the world to Battle Mountain in an attempt to break bike racing land speed records.