Concept captures mood

A high-profile Las Vegas strip club has captured the mood of Nevadans that find the upcoming 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix a curse more than a blessing.?

Crazy Horse III has drawn high praise

Famed strip club Crazy Horse III has drawn high praise from Vegas locals on social media channels after it announced Tuesday details of its “Anti-Race Weekend” event. 

The anti-Grand Prix approach to the main F1 race day on November 23 saw the campaign account for Clark County Commission candidate Ryan Hamilton call the event concept “amazing” on X:

Crazy Horse III invited guests to ditch “laps for lap dances […] while avoiding Strip closures and traffic jams.” The club will offer guests with Nevada IDs free entry, free food, and an open bar. 

Reactions on X included comments like “great marketing … great idea … awesome … now this says Vegas!” 

Reaction reveals mood

While most of the reactions to the anti-F1 event were about expressing praise for the idea, some responses pointed to a deeper local resentment towards the Grand Prix. 

X user Adam Shepherd stated: “When strip clubs are as Anti-F1 as locals, that should say something.”

Las Vegas-based journalist Scott Roeben stated that while the Crazy Horse promotion was directed at locals, “it’s not really about the thing itself, it’s about the sentiment.”

Roeben was referring to how the motor sports takeover of The Strip “has harmed the vast majority of businesses in Las Vegas, not just during the three-day event, but in the months leading up to it.”

The journalist roasted casino operators and public officials and “months of road rage,” stating: “strip clubs are the sane ones.”

Roeben took further aim at F1’s “commandeering of our beloved Las Vegas Strip for its dopey race that helps the rich get richer,” by sharing another anti-race event, the Neon City Festival.

Neon City v Grand Prix 

Roeben stated Downtown casinos were so disgusted by the F1 circus that they “invented an entire music festival as counter-programming.” Circa Resort & Casino owner Derek Stevens created the festival with support from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and the event will run parallel to the Vegas Grand Prix from November 22-24.

still offering racing fans “live racing coverage on the club’s 30, 100-inch flat screens”

Crazy Horse III, however, has a struck a golden marketing seam. It has caught everyone’s attention via an event name that captures the anti-F1 sentiment among locals, but is still offering racing fans “live racing coverage on the club’s 30, 100-inch flat screens TVs complete with surround sound.”