P1 Motor Membership (P1), an experiential motorsports life-style neighborhood with two world-class racetracks, nation membership facilities, and different actual property choices, will likely be opening on Florida’s Treasure Coast in 2025.
Surrounded by scenic ranches and citrus groves, P1’s 650-acre web site is situated 50 minutes north of Palm Seashore and 20 minutes west of the Atlantic Ocean. It’s a quick drive to a few of Florida’s greatest golf and leisure locations: underneath 20 minutes to PGA programs, 90 minutes to Disney and Common theme parks, and 50 minutes to Sebring Worldwide Raceway.
Plans for the property embody three linked however distinct areas:
P1 Members’ Membership: 4.5-mile P1 Circuit, P1 Members’ Residential Group, and P1 Members’ Clubhouse
Treasure Coast Motorsports Complicated: 3.2-mile Treasure Coast Circuit, 1.2-mile karting circuit, skid pad, off-road course, and occasion pavilion, which is able to supply restricted rental alternatives for producers, company, and charity occasions
P1 Motorsports R&D Park: industrial area for race outlets and different motorsports-related companies, and enclosed massive car storage
Since 2008, a number of teams have proposed motorsports golf equipment in Florida of a measurement and scale massive sufficient to assist a unprecedented racetrack. None have been in a position to safe neighborhood assist or approvals to proceed till now. That’s as a result of P1’s group has a confirmed observe file within the design, building, and administration of remarkable automotive nation golf equipment, in addition to race sanctioning and industrial and residential actual property improvement expertise.
Main the cost is P1 Founding Household Ari, Molly, and Aurora Straus. Ari Straus is a founding associate of New York’s famed Monticello Motor Membership (MMC). He served as MMC’s managing associate/CEO for 12 years, developed its 667-acre grasp web site plan, oversaw a number of important enlargement initiatives on the property, and was instrumental in tripling MMC’s membership throughout his tenure. Molly McCoy Straus, a graduate of Duke College and the Kellogg Faculty of Administration at Northwestern College, and Aurora Straus, a graduate of Harvard College and MBA candidate at Emory College, co-founded and managed a sleep-away motorsports camp for teenagers at MMC, a wildly widespread program that was the primary of its sort on the earth. Aurora Straus, an expert racecar driver, additionally based ‘Ladies With Drive,’ an initiative that introduces younger ladies to careers in automotive.
“We remained quiet till the P1 Motor Membership Particular District was totally authorized by each St. Lucie County and the State of Florida, a course of that spanned three years,” stated Ari Straus. “This essential approval permits us to construct the dream, together with two extraordinary racetracks, over 1,000,000 sq. ft of trackside customizable garages, 125 personal residences, membership services and facilities, and industrial area for race outlets and different motorsports-related companies. This isn’t our first rodeo; we all know what it takes to construct a membership that may create incomparable and life-changing moments for drivers, households, and mates.”
Others concerned in P1 embody P1 Founding Associate Al Guibord, who co-founded Components Race Promotions (FRP) in 2006; P1 Founding Associate Gregory Schain, founding father of New Mill Capital Holdings (NMCH); P1 Founding Associate Eric Schwartz, a long-time industrial actual property government; P1 Associate Mike Watkins, who has accomplished over $200 million in residential and industrial building initiatives, together with growing one of many first residential communities centered on racecars and racing; Director of Enjoyable Chris Duplessis, who has a decade of expertise in growing and managing motorsports packages; Director of Membership Sarah Foss, who has 15 years of expertise within the hospitality and luxurious service business and was a part of the management group at one other motorsports facility; and Proprietor’s Consultant Tom Wackrow, a building government with twenty years of expertise overseeing multi-million greenback actual property improvement initiatives, together with the Waldorf Astoria New York, Hudson Yards Vessel, and Cosmopolitan Resort & On line casino in Las Vegas.
P1 will likely be open 12 months a 12 months to supply once-in-a-lifetime particular person and group driving experiences for drivers of all talent ranges and ages, from younger teenagers driving for the primary time to seasoned professionals. Kids as younger as 4 can safely take to the karting observe and might get behind the wheel of a racecar starting at age 13.
“As somebody who realized to race with my father and has since taught dozens of younger drivers, success for me is that members retreat to P1 Motor Membership with their households, not from their households,” stated Aurora Straus. “A long time from now, P1 will likely be a spot the place a number of generations of households can take pleasure in themselves collectively and go on their love of motorsports.”
P1’s membership membership will present devoted area not just for motorsports fanatics to indulge of their ardour and construct connections, but in addition for households to take pleasure in an expansive clubhouse, pool, spa, strolling trails, canine parks, and pickleball, tennis, and basketball courts.
Section I improvement actions have began and can embody the mixed-surface off-road circuit, 4.5-mile P1 Circuit, GarageMahals (trackside custom-made garages with second flooring residing area choices), Autominiums (trackside multi-family and stand-alone residential items), paddock garages, and the Motorsports R&D Park.
P1’s off-road circuit will launch in Q1 2025, using P1’s off-road rental fleet in addition to member-owned Cross Vehicles. As one among a number of members-only race sequence, P1 will host a Cross Automotive race sequence, working wheel-to-wheel in a European-style rallycross format.
Opening in late 2025 and reserved primarily for members, the 4.5-mile P1 Circuit is a monster racetrack that melds enhanced high turns from well-known racetracks worldwide with epic elevation and high-superelevation corners to shake up Florida’s flat panorama. This observe will even characteristic 14,000 ft of straights and a wild figure-8 structure. Click on right here for video of the P1 Circuit in a Ferrari GT3 automobile.
The P1 Circuit’s design was conceptualized by a consortium of drivers who developed a want checklist of options mixed with inspiration from their favourite sections of racetracks around the globe. This idea was then refined by specialists at each Apex Circuit Design and Tilke Engineers and Architects – two of the world’s greatest identified observe designers – to realize FIA Grade 2 security requirements, encouraging drivers to push their limits with out the fixed risk of laborious obstacles solely ft from the observe edge. The consequence?
“The P1 Circuit’s quick nature will provoke pleasure and engagement starting with the very first lap,” stated Aurora Straus. “As drivers acquire expertise, they’ll see huge enhancements of their lap occasions. The P1 Circuit is simple to drive, however troublesome to grasp.”
P1 is presently providing a restricted variety of Constitution licenses, which give people and their fast relations with entry and advantages superior to all different future membership lessons, together with precedence entry to all actual property choices, limitless driving privileges, and use of all membership services and facilities.
Membership to P1 is by invitation and/or referral solely. Potential members who have no idea one of many founders or an present Constitution member could request an interview and software for consideration. Greater than 150 motorsports fanatics and their households have already accepted an invite to hitch P1 as Constitution members.
Actual property choices can be found solely to P1 members, however the buy of actual property shouldn’t be required for membership. Over 70% of Section I GarageMahals and Autominiums are already reserved by present members.
“The curiosity in P1 Motor Membership has far exceeded our expectations, and we’re heartened by the passion,” stated Aurora Straus. “Our imaginative and prescient is to be the top motorsports neighborhood worldwide for drivers and their households. That’s how we consider P1 – as an prolonged household.”