Thanks for the welcome, and I absolutely plan to try to become a regular at the Columbia social. Columbia is about 20 minutes from me and I lived there for three years; I think I saw it was this Thursday, I'm free at the moment so hopefully I can stay that way... if not this time, then definitely sometime soon.

Also, as I've continued on my research for purpose-bought track cars I figured I may as well ask right now- are there any restrictions that anyone knows of for having non-BMW cars at a BMW CCA-sponsored event? I already signed up for the event in October for the M4 but I'm actually growing on the idea of trying to get the majority of my track time in a more learner-friendly vehicle... but I'd hate to be that guy that shows up to a BMW track day in a miata...?

As for the M4, here it is the day I brought it home: