Here’s A Look Into The Autobahn Country Club

A majority of people owning a sports car or an exotic car, share a special relationship with their machines and wish to enjoy them at the same time. However, driving them flat out or enthusiastically out on public roads isn't recommended and isn’t possible either for safety reasons and traffic rules.

Hence, the requirement for a track or a circuit within a closed area emerges. The Autobahn Country Club, located in Joliet, Chicago, offers just the right facilities and experiences that one with a performance-specced car needs. Not only a couple of memberships, but the club offers dedicated racing lessons that one can avail of at nominal expenses as compared to having to pay premium prices for the memberships.

How to Join the Autobahn Country Club?

Like other car clubs, the Autobahn Country Club requires an individual to take membership to enjoy all the benefits offered by them. For joining, the club has a dedicated section on its website that lists the three types of memberships available. Since the club is more focused on driving and racing, getting a membership unlocks several amenities for free and the members are offered handsome discounts on other expenses such as the track expenses and club social event experiences as well.

What benefits does the Autobahn Country Club membership offer?

It is quite prevalent now that car clubs offer some irrefutable perks and benefits to those who take membership. In the case of the Autobahn Country Club, both members and non-members can have access to the tracks, the prime driving force behind the club.

While non-members need to shell out a fee to drive on the tracks and get tutored by the experts at the club, the members get those along with plenty more, but according to the membership plan chosen though.

For You:

• Professional driving instructors
• Social events organized by the club
• Immediate family members can also participate
• Unlimited touring during lunchtime
• Handsome discount rates on every autobahn driving program
• Unique opportunities for driving

For your car:

• Unlimited race track access
• High-speed driving in member’s car
• Exclusive racing series for members
• Access to off-roading trails from Autobahn club
• Timed autocross racing event
• Learning the basics of racetrack driving
• Discounted rates on rent for accessing academy race cars

The Autobahn Country Club Annual Events?

Unlike a few other car clubs, the Autobahn Country Club doesn’t have any annual events. However, they do organize frequent monthly events and already have several of them lined up for the coming months as well. Some of the events are for members while some of them are open to everyone requiring a fee. As mentioned earlier, the club charges less amount if you use your own vehicle while the charges are higher for the club’s race-specced cars. Some of the events are listed below:

• GPS Tracktime: This is an upcoming event in the month of April, and will be held on the Autobahn Country Club tracks. As the club calls it, the event is part of a high-performance driving event or HDPE and isn’t limited to the members only. It will be a non-competitive event where the club officials will time the individual participants separately. Furthermore, the club will also offer an option to time the individuals using advanced GPS data also.
• Performance Drive: Another upcoming event next month is Performance Drive which is also open to everyone. However, one needs to purchase a ticket to participate in the event. The prime highlights of the event are professional instruction about the basics of racetrack driving, classroom instructions, timed track driving sessions, lunch facility, and the participants getting to use their own car. The event will be a graded one where the participants will be required to drive around the track at controlled speeds, followed by high-speed driving around the tracks but within a club professional’s guidance.

• ASM Spring Track and Drift: This is another upcoming event that will be held on the 15th of April, 2023. The event will be held in two parts so that participants having less experience in drifting will participate separately while participants with extensive experience can go out on the track separately. With a participant limit of 100, the groups will be subdivided into 25 individuals so that everyone can avail of a quality time out on the tracks.
• Autobahn Sprint: This upcoming event will be held on 1st June 2023. This event has some similarities with the previously mentioned Performance Drive but this one includes competitive track times. In the beginning, there will be a classroom crash course where the participants will be transferred knowledge on cornering, weight distribution, proper braking techniques, and fundamentals of car control by Autobahn Driver Academy Instructors. Post the classroom session, the participants will go out on the track wearing helmets and take part in high-speed driving around the track trailing behind an instructor. All the sessions will be timed and the fastest drivers will be awarded at the end of the day. Furthermore, the participants will get to enjoy a hearty and hot buffet laid out by the hospitality team of the club.

Listed below are the race cars offered by the Autobahn Country Club to its members and other event participants:

1. Spec Mazda Miata

The Club has a fleet of race-specced Mazda Miata from 1990 to 1999 model years. All the cars are upgraded with a full roll cage, racing harness along with racing brakes and pads. The cars also get a full racing suspension setup, an onboard racing data system to time the laps and other details, and their engines tuned to deliver over 120 hp.

2. BMW E46 Race Car

Stepping up the fleet, the Club has a collection of BMW E46 race cars which are built exclusively by Fall-Line Motorsports. Like the Mazda Miata fleet, the E46s get complete racing upgrades such as racing brakes, racing brake pads, performance tires, racing suspension setup, and racing harnesses. In terms of performance though, the E46s get their engines tuned to deliver more than 350 horses.