For a cool $1,700, let your inner F1 driver loose at Porsche’s new racetrack in Pickering

Got several hundred dollars and a need for speed? Wondering why cars have hundreds of horsepower just to inch along, slower than bikes, in gridlocked Toronto traffic? Then rejoice, for Porsche is opening a brand-new two-kilometre-long test-driving track in Pickering, complete with tight turns and screaming straightaways to zip down. You know, the stuff cars were made to do.

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For $1,700, would-be F1 drivers can hop in a sports car and let it rip for 90 minutes, guided by a professional instructor who, unlike your average driving coach, encourages their charges to push the car to its limits. A shorter lap around the track goes for $140.

Whether that cost is worth it will have a lot to do with how much a car lover longs to do doughnuts—which, yes, they can do here: the track offers two low-friction sections of polished concrete, which are wetted by a spraying fountain, allowing motorists to hydroplane in a controlled environment. In the words of one driver fresh from the course: “You can just keep spinning around. It’s like a movie.”

On offer is the Porsche 911 GT, a sleek low sports car complete with racing stripes and a spoiler. Its flat-six engine lets out a wicked roar—a love-it-or-hate-it feature perhaps best confined to a suburban racetrack. For the more practically minded (or more hearing sensitive), the all-electric Taycan SUV promises a smooth, serene ride. And for those who think all of this sounds terrifying, driving simulators beckon.

It’s an exciting bit of experiential marketing for luxury cars, but it’s also a helpful release valve for urbanites’ street-racing fantasies. In a perpetually gridlocked city with a desperate need for fewer cars, sport driving is best reserved for a track of its own.