This New Track Club Gives Members Access to Miami’s F1 Circuit
While Florida has no shortage of supercar driving clubs, the latest to open its doors offers motoring enthusiasts a truly unique experience to set it apart; the opportunity to have a Formula 1 track as the featured amenity. Welcome to the newly opened Precision Drive Club. Located on the grounds of the sprawling Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, it comprises the same snaking ribbon of asphalt as Formula 1’s Miami Grand Prix.
“We’re the only driving club in the world to offer members the kind of Formula 1 experience you can normally only get if you are part of F1,” claims general manager Adam Neal during Robb Report‘s exclusive tour. “We’re all about providing the kind of driving experience that focuses on challenging driver and car . . . what we believe sets us apart is the excitement of driving on a current Formula 1 track, backed up with the best F1-style facilities,” says Neal.
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Membership includes track time on portions of the actual Formula 1 circuit, the premier race series’ levels of safety, security, and timing, and even use of the same garages that Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen operate out of during the Miami Grand Prix. Adding to the exclusivity is the fact that only 100 memberships are on offer, which will include a projected 40 track days per year, along with unlimited use of the club facilities and hospitality. This is all granted with a one-time initiation fee and annual membership dues, though Neal declines to disclose numbers.
The club itself is the brainchild of Tom Garfinkel, CEO of the Miami Dolphins, which is the organization that owns and operates the Hard Rock Stadium. Six years ago, before the Formula 1 deal was inked, he had the vision of a driving country club. “Then Formula 1 came along and we had the perfect facility with a track largely unused outside of F1,” Neal explains. “So it made sense to turn Tom Garfinkel’s dream into a reality.”
Basing such a club at a 65,000-seat football stadium does, however, come with a few challenges. In addition to the Dolphins games and Formula 1, the stadium hosts such high-profile events as the Miami Open tennis tournament, as well as a multitude of major concerts and sporting events. Taylor Swift was there last October, Coldplay plays there in July, and seven matches in the next FIFA World Cup are scheduled for 2026.
To provide maximum flexibility during the set up for various events, the stadium had to create three entirely new sections of the circuit to modify the existing layout. Conceived by track-design guru Hermann Tilke, each was built to strict Formula 1 FIA standards.
Arguably the most fun is the 2.44-mile Marina Loop, which takes in the first 10 turns of the 19-turn Formula 1 circuit. It’s one of four layouts the club will offer. As part of Robb Report’s club “experience,” Precision’s Nico Rondet, a racer in the European Le Mans Series, took us on a few heart-pounding hot laps in the club’s Ferrari 488 track car. The Marina Loop is a heady mix of tight hairpins, flat-out sweepers, and a back straightaway where Verstappen hits 200 mph; Nico takes us up to 125 mph.
Unfortunately, the full Formula 1 track is only available during the Miami Grand Prix weekend, as putting it all together involves temporarily closing two busy sections of public highway. That said, Neal notes that club members will have the opportunity to drive their cars on the full track as part of high-speed demonstration laps in front of the crowd during the Miami Grand Prix weekend.
Back at the pits, Precision’s main hospitality suite features a chef-tended dining area, comfy sofas, a bar, and pit-lane viewing. Steps away is the Race Control room and its wall of screens covering every inch of the track. It’s the same facility used during the big race and where all the track action is managed, as well as any emergency response. Alongside is the Broadcast Room, which relays everything happening on track, captured by 40 cameras, to TV screens throughout the club. There are also in-car feeds for any vehicle out on the circuit.
For now, the club has no plans, or space, to offer the kind of “auto loft” garages that nearby rivals such as The Concours Club (just outside of Miami) or Tampa’s Motor Enclave boast. Instead, the 37 garages, which are used by the Formula 1 teams for just four weeks per year, are available to club members the remainder of the time as car storage and social pit stops.
Says Neal, “We feel we have created a drivers’ club in the truest sense, where the focus is on driving. Here, you really can follow the racing lines and tire tracks laid down by the likes of Hamilton and Verstappen.”
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