Veteran racing manager Richard Cregan, who has organized races in Russia and Abu Dhabi, has joined the organizers of the proposed Las Vegas venture, Forbes reports.The former senior manager for Toyota F1 has most recently been a consultant for the Russian Grand Prix, whose inaugural race drew 166,000 people and...

Above: Jacques Laffite (Ligier JS17-Matra) leads Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari 126CK) during the 1981 Las Vegas Grand Prix.A month after chief executive Bernie Ecclestone called plans for a Las Vegas race "struggling," the founder of the group organizing the event tells the BBC that a Beijing-based conglomerate has "an agreement in...