If you’ve ever fantasized about buzzing around an oval track at warp speed, head for Infineon Raceway—and Jim Russell Driving School—in Sonoma, Calif. Here you and your top execs can suit up, get tips from the pros and be out on the course for a team-building experience you (and they) will never forget. Or, if you’re drooling over the new Audi R8, which will get you to 60 mph in 4.4 seconds, slide behind the wheel of a 2009 at the track’s Audi Driving Experience—but be forewarned, drive it and you’ll want one!   

And you thought Sonoma County—or Sonoma Country, as they call it—was all about wine!

Well, it is, and it isn’t. Sure, there are more than 175 wineries producing everything from Parker-rated cabernets to old-vine zinfandels to skinny sauvignon blancs. But there’s so much more.

Like horses, for instance. If your speed is a little more leisurely than 120 mph, your group can learn leadership skills and more about themselves through a first-hand experience with a herd of eight horses at Skyhorse Ranch in Valley Ford. Turns out, horses have a social structure much like humans, says Ariana Strozzi, who leads the program, and their interactions with both individuals and a group’s dynamics are insightful for all concerned. (Although you don’t saddle up for riding instruction, you still have an excuse to wear jeans and your Tony Lamas!)

Horsepower and horses—Sonoma Country—who knew?