The Las Vegas Grand Prix won’t be like any other race.

Formula 1 is perpetually in the business of walking the line between spectacle and sport, and its third concurrent race in the United States will be the biggest test of its resolve.

Next November F1 cars will zip past the city’s New World wonders — the Bellagio fountain, the Venetian hotel with its replica Venice landmarks, the pretend Eiffel Tower — turn left about a block north of the USA’s eighth busiest airport, snake back north past a giant spherical concert venue and then south of the obligatory golf course before rejoining the Strip.