LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – People around the world can now pre-register for tickets to next year’s Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix race. Meanwhile, nonprofit leaders and event workers are just some of the Southern Nevadans who are getting excited to collect big checks from this massive event.
“This is powerful for all of us,” said Brooke Neubauer, who founded The Just One Project.
By registering for pre-registration, F1 says fans will be asked to donate $7.77 to the Las Vegas Grand Prix Foundation, “which will deploy these donations to projects that improve the lives of Southern Nevada residents , including providing one million free meals to the local Las Vegas community.
Neubauer’s nonprofit is just one of the charities benefiting.
“They’ve been on a listening tour and they’ve chosen The Just One Project as one of their charities to support this year, we’re very grateful,” Neubauer said.
He said the impacts of these donations will be felt by those in need.
“We’ll be able to serve more customers and really help them get to a self-sustaining place where they don’t have to shop at our community market at no cost. They can shop at the grocery store of their choice,” Neubauer said.
Three Square will also receive a portion of your donations from this F1 pre-registration event.
“We are absolutely thrilled that this will benefit Three Square,” said Kate Hibbard Gaines, Three Square’s director of development. “One in four children goes home to a food insecure household. So every donation that goes to the foundation, which then goes to Three Square or one of our partners, will have such a big impact.”
But it’s not just nonprofits that are aiming to rev up their engines and pull in the dough. The weekend of the event is expected to generate an indirect economic impact of one billion dollars.
Local travel and event workers will have plenty of job opportunities to choose from with this event.
“It’s going to be so much work that everybody’s going to be working,” said Phil Jaynes, president, IATSE 720, Las Vegas operators union.
He said they will get calls to work the race itself: “I imagine there will be video walls all over the track. There will be broadcast areas, stages. A lot of those are jobs that our guys do regularly.”
But he also said they will be called to work on the festivities surrounding the event.
“All these sponsors will be here in town and all the different hotels will have their parties for their sponsors and their partners, so we’ll get a lot of work from that as well,” Jaynes said.
He added: “The fan base of Formula 1, it’s the people who can afford to travel to these events… So the amount of money that will be involved in this event, I think it will be the biggest event that we’ve had. had in Las Vegas.”
F1’s recently purchased construction site at Koval and Harmon will act as a pit stop for the race, then the track will travel north through Koval, up and around the MSG Sphere, and on to the Strip via the Sands Avenue, where the riders will return south. .
The track for the Las Vegas event is 3.8 miles long from start to finish, according to F1, with top speeds estimated at more than 212 miles per hour.
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