Mercedes Is Taking Its Free F1 Fan Hub to Las Vegas After Packing Downtown Austin
The team's free downtown hub runs November 18–21 on Bellagio Drive, with a real-car pit-stop challenge, simulators, and live Grand Prix screenings.
Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS is taking its free downtown Fan Hub from Austin to Las Vegas. The team says the hub will run on Bellagio Drive from November 18 to 21, the full week of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, with no ticket required.
Las Vegas is the third and last US round of the 2026 season for the team, and the hub is the closing act of a US program that peaked in Austin, where Mercedes paired it with a MANUFAKTUR livery and a takeover of downtown Austin. Mercedes describes the turnout in Texas as incredible but hasn't released attendance figures.
What fans can do there
The format carries over from Austin. The headline attraction is a pit-stop challenge on a real F1 car, coached by the team's own mechanics. Next to it sit racing simulators, a station that prints personalized driver cards, and a trackside area built around a "Muse" pit-wall activation.
Mercedes will also display a 2026 show car and pieces of historic team memorabilia, sell official merchandise in an on-site store, and run live links to the Strip circuit with group screenings of the Grand Prix sessions. The team also promises unannounced surprises but hasn't said what they are.
A victory lap in the making
The timing works in Mercedes' favor. After Austin, Kimi Antonelli leads the drivers' championship on 365 points, 123 clear of teammate George Russell, and Mercedes tops the constructors' table with 607 points to Ferrari's 474, according to the standings after the United States Grand Prix. Antonelli can clinch the title as soon as this weekend in Mexico City, so the team may arrive in Las Vegas with the drivers' crown already settled.
Mercedes isn't the only team courting American fans off the track this year. Audi's F1 team made its first trip to Austin in October, and the US now has a team of its own on the grid in Cadillac, whose first F1 car is racing this season.
Victoria Johnson, the team's Chief Marketing Operations Officer, said the Austin response showed how much demand there is for ways to get closer to the team away from the circuit.
What we don't know yet
The Las Vegas Grand Prix runs November 19 to 21, with the race on Saturday night, so the hub closes on race day. Mercedes hasn't published opening hours, the exact address on Bellagio Drive, whether visitors need to register, or which drivers will appear. Updates are expected on the team's website.
