Sam Mitani - Journalist, Driver, and Author
The Smoking Tire30 Aug 2018

Sam Mitani - Journalist, Driver, and Author

Sam Mitani has been writing about cars, driving sports cars, and living cars for the last 30 years. As the International Editor for Road & Track, he traveled the world testing interesting cars throughout the 90's and 2000's, including setting a speed record at Bonneville, racing in the original Paris to Dakar Rally (and nealry getting killed doing it), and participating in the best unscripted car program of all time, Best Motoring. He is in studio talking about his new novel, The Prototype, available on Amazon now!

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