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Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots: A Racing Odyssey on the Border of Obsession
Sam Moses
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Description for Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots: A Racing Odyssey on the Border of Obsession
Paperback. A personal odyssey that peers over the cliff of change and into the pit of obsession. Num Pages: 348 pages, 110 photographs. BIC Classification: WSPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Sam Moses, a motorsports writer for Sports Illustrated, was assigned to go racing and write about what happened. Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots is a personal odyssey that peers over the cliff of change and into the pit of obsession. From small-time races to glittery grands prix, it lays bare the greed, lust, and desperation of every driver for time behind the wheel and a faster car. It explains the perfectionism behind taking a turn at the limit and describes the intoxicating thrill of stealing down the Daytona backstraight at nearly two hundred miles an hour. The core of Moses's ... Read more
Sam Moses, a motorsports writer for Sports Illustrated, was assigned to go racing and write about what happened. Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots is a personal odyssey that peers over the cliff of change and into the pit of obsession. From small-time races to glittery grands prix, it lays bare the greed, lust, and desperation of every driver for time behind the wheel and a faster car. It explains the perfectionism behind taking a turn at the limit and describes the intoxicating thrill of stealing down the Daytona backstraight at nearly two hundred miles an hour. The core of Moses's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803210967
SKU
V9780803210967
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About Sam Moses
Sam Moses was a staff writer for Sports Illustrated for seventeen years on the motorsports beat. He worked as deputy editor at AutoWeek and received automotive journalism’s prestigious Ken Purdy Award. He is the author of At All Costs: How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Mariners Reversed the Tide of World War II.
Reviews for Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots: A Racing Odyssey on the Border of Obsession
“A candid, often hilarious account of [Moses’s] experiences on the tracks, in the garages and in the gasoline alleys of the racing world—but especially memorable is the wild variety of characters Moses met along the way. The book might have been written twenty years ago, but racing is still populated by fast guys, rich guys, and idiots.”—Brock Yates, Wall Street ... Read more