I think the hotels have the gouging part covered by that card you see on the back of the door that lists their maximum rate. As for special event rates, it is pretty much the same whether you are talking about the Daytona 500, Speed Week, Sturgis, or even a ski trip at Christmas. If you book and pay for it, you are strictly at the hotel's mercy to cancel or refund your money. As long as the places at Wendover have more customers and than rooms, they will continue to charge what they want. Sadly there probably isn't enough demand the rest of the year to justify a bunch of Comfort Inns or Holiday Inn Expresses to be built out there. Class actions only seem to benefit the lawyers who put them together, the rest of us would probably only get a voucher for a meal at a casino buffet. Small claims might be a possibility, but I am guessing the language in the agreement would get the hotels out of it.