When Microsoft was based in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the late 70s, Bill Gates bought a Porsche 911 and used to race it in the desert. He was arrested for speeding 3 times. Paul Allen had to bail him out of jail after one midnight escapade.

Apparently, it was for driving under the influence of a flowery shirt.

I seem to vaguely remember Pirates of Silicon Valley portraying it as a large speeding offense in a really expensive sports car. But they probably sexed it up quite a bit from the truth...

I seem to recall a race with large construction vehicles.

He was arrested for speeding. He smashed up Paul Allen's car racing bulldozers.

Now that you mention it, that sounds right. Apparently my memories are getting mixed up; it's been many years since I watched that film.

I don't recall what they covered in Pirates (pretty sure the bulldozer race is in there), but BG definitely has a reputation for liking fast cars. In fact, Gates and Paul Allen lobbied to get changes to US auto regulations passed so that they could import Porsche 959s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_959#.22Gates_959.22

Nah, I have a particularly good memory for movie scenes. The construction vehicles scene and arrest scene are two different things. Bill gets arrested while speeding (while singing Sinatra's My Way in a sports car) and he wreck Paul Allen's car in the different bulldozer scene. Of course this is a movie so both can be pure fiction.

That's what I remember from a biography or autobiography I read, but it has been a while...