The citation goes in the glovebox. That is where most of them stay, wedged behind the registration and a folded map, until the trailer is unhooked and the weekend is over and the piece of paper stops being interesting to anybody.
Race weekends generate paper. Off highway registration and plate rules keep applying on the connector roads between camp and pavement. A stretch of asphalt on the way out gets read as exhibition of speed. A tag light, a load that shifted, a chase truck rolling through a small Nevada town at the end of a very long day. Highway Patrol writes some of it, county deputies write the rest, and a federal land ranger writes a version that does not go to a state court at all.
What is printed on the citation matters more than what it was for. A misdemeanor citation is a court date with a courthouse name and a time on it, and the obligation attaches to the person, not to the truck. Missing that date does not make the ticket quietly go away. A judge can issue a bench warrant, and failing to appear can be charged separately from whatever the citation alleged in the first place. The warrant does not expire on its own. It waits, and it surfaces at a traffic stop, at an airport screening, or the next time somebody drives back into Nevada to race.
Racers underestimate this because a citation over a plate does not feel like something that follows a person for years. The route back out is a motion to quash, which asks the judge to recall the warrant and put the case back on the calendar. Nevada also lets an attorney appear on a defendant's behalf for most misdemeanors, which matters a great deal when the defendant lives in another state. A criminal defense office in Las Vegas that publishes plain language pages on warrants and missed court dates walks through how that works, including for people who have no intention of driving back across the desert for a hearing about a taillight.
A minute of work at the truck prevents most of it. Photograph the citation on the tailgate while the light is still good. Read the court name out loud so a second person hears it. Put the date in the same calendar that holds the next race. Chase crews already track fuel stops and driver changes to the minute, and a court date is easier to track than either one, with the difference that this one has a warrant attached to the far end of it.