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Photos: Formula 1 Does Las Vegas in Style

Formula 1 dazzled Las Vegas this week, the city to host a Grand Prix next year for the first time since the gambling mecca hosted the II Caesar's Palace Grand Prix in 1982, with a high-profile launch event. Twice a Grand Prix venue, when in 1981 Alan Jones won driving for Williams, and a year later, Michele Alboreto did the business for Tyrrell. In his historical analysis of the two races during Bernie Ecclestone's early reign as F1 supremo, Randall Cannon wrote: 'The long-departed Caesars Palace Grand Prix was held on a purpose-built F1 course through parking facilities and fallow land just north of the Caesars resort in 1981 and 1982 before converting its twisting road course to an...
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