HOME OF THE BRAVE

Monticello Motor Club is about as far removed as you can get from a damp track day at Snetterton. This 6.6-kilometre ribbon of tarmac, nestled in a sleepy valley 145 kilometres north of NYC (a 90-minute drive in your favourite supercar… or, more realistically, given the clientele, a short hop in your helicopter), pitches itself as a country club. Membership starts at R850,000 plus R83,000 per year for the Silver package and rises to R1,4mil plus R197,000 per year for the Gold package… for which you’ll get unlimited use of the track, and the club will store, prepare and run your car, so when you arrive, all you have to do is don your race suit and drive. Ker-ching.

Monticello is where the real-life Bobby Axelrods come to play, where performance and speed are the primary currency. It is therefore as rich an environment as it is possible