The contrasts that unite the brilliance of racing in Macau and Las Vegas

OPINION: The streets of gambling heartlands Las Vegas and Macau will ring with the sound of motorsport this weekend, but both events cater for vastly different markets, and it is this which unites them in their appeal

Published Nov 16, 2023, 10:16 AM

There’s both a nice symmetry, and a complete contrast, to the fact that the world’s two biggest gambling capitals – Macau and Las Vegas – are hosting showpiece races around their streets this weekend.

On the one side, there is unprecedented hype surrounding anything to do with F1 in Las Vegas right now. Sponsors are falling over themselves to capitalise on the eyeballs that will be focused on cars blasting down the Strip and around the Sphere. Casual fans are sure also to pay a bit more attention to the grand prix action than they would on a more normal weekend.

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Author Jonathan Noble

Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.

Jonathan has won multiple awards for journalism - in 1991 he was the winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Sir William Lyons’ Award for young journalists, in 2010 he was awarded the Outstanding Individual accolade for consumer journalism in the Haymarket wards, in 2011 he won Haymarket’s Scoop of the Year, and in 2018 he was awarded a prestigious Medaglia d’Oro at the Lorenzo Bandini Awards for his contribution to F1 journalism.