In more than three decades as a journalist, Sam Moses has driven racing cars 190 miles per hour and superbike motorcycles 170 mph at Daytona; retraced Theodore Roosevelt's descent down the "River of Doubt" over treacherous whitewater rapids through the darkest Brazilian Amazon; made the first free ascent of the mystical 16,023-foot Carstensz Pyramid in the equatorial jungle of Papua New Guinea, led to the mountain by erstwhile cannibals wearing only penis sheaths; dived from the cliffs of Acapulco; hunted alligators with famed Yankee pitcher Ron "Louisiana Lightning" Guidry; crewed on a 54-foot ketch in the Trans-Pacific sailboat race; and co-drove in La Carrera Panamericana, the revival of the 1800-mile Mexican Road Race from Guatemala to Texas, among other adventures.

A former senior writer for Sports Illustrated, Moses also witnessed and wrote about the first human-powered flight, of the Gossamer Condor, as well as the historic nonstop flight around the world of the impossibly gangly Voyager, now in the Smithsonian Museum. In 1998 Moses won the Ken Purdy Award for excellence in automotive journalism, for his story about Jocko Johnson, a sculptor and former top-fuel drag racer who lived in an old school bus in the Mojave Desert, as he toiled to re-invent the internal combustion engine in order to set a new land speed record, and then convert the engine to get 300 mpg to save the planet from global warming. As deputy editor at AutoWeek, Moses also won the Mario Andretti High Performance Award for motorsports writing.

His racedriving memoir, Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots, was named by Brock Yates in the Wall Street Journal Book Review as one of the five best books ever written about motorsports, and was reprinted by the prestigious University of Nebraska Press in 2007. At All Costs: How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Mariners Turned the Tide of World War II, published by Random House, was released in 2006 to rave reviews. He's now working on a new book, the memoir of a single dad, titled It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This: The True Life Adventures of Papa Madre and the AngloArabAsian Brothers.

Moses has been road-testing new cars for 15 years. He drives more than 80 new cars per year and reviews the most interesting ones for OnCars.com. He lives with his two sons, Tai and Makani Kai, in White Salmon, Washington. For more stories, check out Sam's Blog.