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.
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.
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.
He was arrested for speeding. He smashed up Paul Allen's car racing bulldozers.
That's what I remember from a biography or autobiography I read, but it has been a while...