F1 Weekends: Austin

Every October the same thing happens. Hotels near the track sell out a year ahead, the OTAs fill with three-night minimums at four times the normal rate, and a group of six friends ends up in two rooms forty minutes from Circuit of The Americas. Austin has a real professional rental market, mostly in the neighborhoods and out toward the lakes, and almost none of it is easy to find from an F1 search.

This club is that market, gathered for one weekend. Every home is managed by a company with its own booking site. Two of them say COTA on the listing; the rest are where you would actually want to sleep, eat, and leave from at 7am. The circuit's own travel program (travel.thecircuit.com) sells hotels and packages, not homes, so nothing here overlaps with it.