Greenville was great
So Greenville was nice. The folks we worked with were great and they seemed to appreciate what we were offering. We’ll see if they stick with the program for long, but they had a great start at least.
The city looked nice too, from what I could see. I was in the hotel and conference rooms mostly, but one night we did get to go out to the BMW Performance Driving Center, just outside of town.
The client paid for all of us to go there and test drive some neat cars. We drove the X3’s on the off-road track, Z4’s on the oval track with water, 335+twin turbo’s on the Auto-X track, M5’s on the big oval and the Z4’s again on a timed road track. Those last Z4 races were the most fun, even though the cars had auto transmissions. When you get ready for the first time, the instructor says, “OK. This is not your car. This is not your gas. These are not your tires. Drive this thing like you stole it.” IOW, go wild, so we did. I did a 30.44 lap and then a 28.76 lap. The best driver there that night did it in 26.56 though, so I need to improve quite a bit more still. I’ll take that anytime. It was a ton of fun and really nice of our client to let us join their employees.
