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March 19, 2024

Monday by the Numbers: Hitting 140 mph in a Ferrari and 13 million on Broadway

Exotics Racing Welcome Center Grand Opening

Josh Metz

The grand opening of the Exotics Racing Welcome Center on Thursday, June 4, 2014, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

This week, Monday by the Numbers touches on such vehicles as Ferrari and Lamborghini and Porsche as the crew at Exotics Racing celebrated the opening of a Welcome Center at the attraction’s Las Vegas Motor Speedway home.

Read on, those who are interested in stats:

$4.5 million: Cost of the new Exotics Racing Welcome Center.

14,000: Square feet covered by the Welcome Center.

16: Makes of vehicles at Exotics Racing.

60: Cars in the business’s fleet.

14: Ferraris available to drive.

11: Lamborghinis available to drive.

5: Laps drivers can take in either of those cars in a single-drive package.

$299: Cost of that package.

140 mph: My top speed in Thursday’s ride-along in a Ferrari 430 Scuderia.

140 mph: Top speedometer listing on my 2015 Mazda 6i Grand Touring sports sedan.

$100: Cost of an official Club Life Tiesto letter jacket at the MGM Grand gift shop.

$46.40: Base general-admission ticket price for a show at Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club at MGM Grand.

$39: Base general-admission ticket price for Vinnie Favorito’s new residency at Tommy Wind Theater.

518: Capacity of Tommy Wind Theater.

800: Fans in attendance at Saturday’s 25th annual “Tournament of Tease” Miss Exotic World competition at Orleans Showroom.

14: Donny Osmond’s age when he first performed in Las Vegas with The Osmond Brothers on a double bill with Petula Clark at Caesars Palace’s Circus Maximus.

2: Years since Osmond suffered a torn gluteus maximus while performing “Crazy Horses” at Flamingo Las Vegas (the number is to finally return to the show when Donny & Marie are back on June 16).

$49: Base ticket price for performances at the Smith Center on Jun 27-28 by Annaleigh Ashford, who Sunday won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (“You Can’t Take It With You”).

13 million: Ticket-buyers for Broadway shows in the 2014-2015 season, an all-time high.

13.3 percent: Percentage that ticket sales for Broadway shows has risen in the past two years.

$55-$211: Ticket-price range for Penn & Teller’s run at Marquis Theater on Broadway in New York from July 7-Aug. 16.

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