2008-08-05 08:17:01
Author Sam Moses, whose memoir Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots was recently named one of the five best books ever written about motorsports by the Wall Street Journal Book...
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Playboy MX-5 Cup Photo Gallery
2008-07-31 19:05:32
(L) Eric Foss, Team MER driving coach, started 10th, finished 3rd, and leads the series. (R) The three MER shoes, signing autographs and looking cool in shades: Rob Huffmaster, Eric Foss and Ryan Schimsk.
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Fact 1, Fiction 0
2008-07-28 18:45:17
I’ll be doing a couple more blogs from the Mazda Grand Prix of Portland, including a photo gallery as soon as I get the pics, but I should get this blog out of the way first. The Dueling Authors thing, with Garth Stein.
I won....
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Pre-race thoughts, Playboy MX-5 Cup
2008-07-27 06:57:28
I’m writing this at 6 a.m. on the Sunday morning of the race, I think in order to clear my mind. In the grand scheme of things, whatever happens today will be insignificant. People will be entertained for a...
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Day One: The Crash
2008-07-24 09:20:49
Thursday, July 24.
Mazda Grand Prix of Portland.
Playboy MX-5 Cup.
MAZDASPEED Motorsports ride, with Team MER out of Fort Worth, Texas, the MX-5 Cup...
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Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots: The Underdog
2008-07-17 04:21:34
If you haven't read the previous blog, here's the setup: Garth Stein, author of the bestselling "The Art of Racing in the Rain," is shooting off his fertile imagination, saying he'll blow me into the weeds at the upcoming race on...
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Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots Big Story!
2008-07-15 13:57:08
FACT VS FICTION ON THE RACE TRACK
- It will be Novelist vs Motorsports Writer at the Portland Mazda MX-5 Cup Race -
July 14, 2008 (Irvine, Calif.) – The...
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Running 190
2007-10-20 13:32:43
I first drove the RTG Motorsports BMW MCoupe for 20 minutes one hot day last summer, at Pacific Raceways. It was about the sweetest racecar I’ve ever driven—there have been a few faster and some sexier, but none so sweet. It felt born...
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First and Last Time as an Idiot
2007-10-10 12:50:41
University of Nebraska Press Blog
October 1, 2007
Once, when I was doing a book signing for the original “Fast Guys, Rich Guys and Idiots” some 20 years ago, a young woman asked me if the book was about her...
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Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots Take Off
2007-09-10 12:01:19
Getting a head start on the September 7 paperback publication of his classic racing memoir, Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots, Sam Moses raced to 5th overall in a field of 40 powerful sports cars at the SCCA regional event at...
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University of Nebraska Press Releases Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots
2007-09-07 11:54:42
Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots
A Racing Odyssey on the Border of Obsession
By Sam Moses
With a new introduction by the author
Sam Moses, a motorsports writer for Sports Illustrated, was assigned to...
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