Sam Smith is a writer, a former executive editor of Road & Track, a BMW 2002 person, and an amateur racing driver. Over a 20-year career, he has tested nearly every BMW road model built, written for The New York Times, hosted TV for NBC Sports, and qualified on the front row at England's Goodwood Revival. Several years ago, he raced a factory-owned IMSA 3.0 CSL and an Alpina 2002ti in the Monterey Historics at the invitation of BMW of North America. Sam currently resides in Tennessee with his family and an extremely rusty 1972 2002tii.