Mexico Drive Resort

Overview

Mexico Drive Resort is a private motorsport club in the State of Mexico, beside the México-Toluca motorway between Los Encinos and La Marquesa, about 18 kilometres from Toluca International Airport and 17 kilometres from Santa Fe. It describes itself as the first private racetrack in Mexico and Latin America and is run by Mexico Drive Resort Operadora. Access is through memberships of five, ten or twenty years for individuals or families, and the venue also hosts corporate and automotive industry events, such as the tenth Porsche World Road Show in April 2024, when journalists from Mexico and Latin America drove the Porsche range on the circuit.

Technical Specifications and Track Features

The circuit was designed by Hermann Tilke, whose company lists it at 3,740 metres with 22 turns, eleven to the left and eleven to the right. The resort itself quotes four kilometres of asphalt and an ideal line of 3.75 kilometres, with 47 metres of elevation change, and Tilke notes gradients of up to 17 and 22 percent. Named features include an uphill blind corner, a sequence of esses, a banked turn, a chicane and a corkscrew. The resort offers three circuit configurations, while Tilke speaks of eight possible variations. The track has three compacted asphalt layers laid to FIA and FIM homologation specifications, triple-wave steel barriers, Michelin tyre barriers, stabilising grass and French drains, and lap timing is provided by a MyLaps system. When the project was announced in 2021 it was presented as a 33-hectare site where cars would exceed 250 km/h on the straight.

Facilities and Specialized Areas

Members have a clubhouse with a restaurant and concierge service, a locker room, premium garages for storing cars, private pits and technology-equipped rooms for meetings, conventions and corporate events. According to the Motorsports Club of Clubs, the facility uses facial recognition and other digital security systems, and streams onboard video and real-time lap times to its members as teaching aids. The land was originally used for keeping horses, and the developers planted around 30,000 trees, treat rainwater and surface runoff, and use solar energy to power the site.

History

Mexico Drive Resort was announced in 2021 as the first project of its kind in Mexico and Latin America, with a layout approved by the FIA and the FIM and plans for a clubhouse, a dynamic driving area and a boutique hotel. Tilke Engineering, which had earlier redesigned the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City, dates the opening of the resort to 2023. The club belongs to the Motorsports Club of Clubs, Tilke's network of private circuits around the world, which gives members access to other private tracks designed by the company. In November 2025 Porsche opened its first Driving Center in Latin America at the resort, with a fleet of sports and electric cars, hospitality areas and meeting rooms, and marked the opening with the eleventh Porsche World Road Show. In 2026 the Porsche Driving Center México hosted the fourth Mexican edition of Porsche's Sportscar Together Day, with more than 200 Porsche cars and over 500 guests.