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Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots: A Racing Odyssey on the Border of Obsession

Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots: A Racing Odyssey on the Border of Obsession


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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 story takes place in the heartland of stock car racing, there he finds a spot on a team in Ether, North Carolina. The team's owner is a tough Louisiana oil man, its crew chief a lanky, laconic Texan, and its number-one driver a hairy-chested leadfoot who learned fast driving on backwoods Georgia roads, delivering beauty supplies in his Mustang. Crashes echo throughout the tale that follows, five of them the author's own.

Table of Contents:
PART IChapter One - Chasing RabbitsChapter Two - In the DarkChapter Three - Fast GuysChapter Four - The Learning CurveChapter Five - More KinksChapter Six - Swept AwayPART IIChapter Seven - Piracy on the High BanksChapter Eight - Rich GuysChapter Nine - Dangerous Darlene Strikes Again or, Climaxing at the Daytona 24-HourChapter 10 - IdiotsChapter 11- Crimes of PassionChapter 12- Heavy Metal RulesChapter 13 - Every Which Way But StraightPART IIIChapter 14 - Can't Let a Slow Car Get You DownChapter 15 - Chickens Is All He's GotChapter 16 - Saved by the KidChapter 17 - Pedal to the MetalChapter 18 - Bandits, But Still BugaboosChapter 19 - There But for Fortune. . . .Chapter 20 - Going out with a BangChapter 21 - Some Hole, Huh?Epilogue

About the Author :
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.

Review :
"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." Brock Yates, Wall Street Journal


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780803210967
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Bison Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 348
  • Sub Title: A Racing Odyssey on the Border of Obsession
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0803210965
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 348
  • Weight: 526 gr


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