By the mid-20th century, professional motorsports established
itself as one of America’s modern pastimes. Auto racing also
found its way to fabulous Las Vegas in the 1950’s. Motorsports
played its first Vegas hand in 1954 at a bankrupt horse track,
fully beset by gamblers and racketeers. Moving in 1958 to rustic
nearby Henderson, auto racing became enmeshed with gamblers and
government, and the apparent hooks of organized crime. In 1965, the
racing game moved to Stardust International Raceway. Stardust was
constructed with real grandstands, permanent sanitary facilities,
and air-conditioned timing towers. Stardust would host the biggest
racing names of the 1960’s; Mario Andretti, Parnelli Jones, John
Surtees, Bobby Unser, Dan Gurney, Mark Donohue, Bruce McLaren,
Denis Hulme, Tom McEwen, and Don Garlits among them. Stardust
International Raceway also had another side, cloaked in shadow.
Borne by a notorious racketeer, the alleged overlords of organized
crime appeared to lurk behind the veil of the racing plant.
Stardust Raceway also ran parallel with convergences of the
1960’s; secret wiretaps, casino skimming, Howard Hughes, the
seeds of Watergate. Stardust was a race track like no other,
documented in the auto racing monthlies, the national news
dailies…and the files of the FBI.
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