Brown freely admits that his books are not based entirely in fact. It's called creative license - the facts that Brown has written about weren't quite interesting enough to make his book a bestseller, so rather than that he modifies them a little bit for public consumption.

Except when you have a jerk on your backside that will clearly blow past you at warp 2 the second he has a chance. THEN pacing the car next to you is the only sensible option to teach those insensitive clods a lesson. /me runs away and sings Dennis Leary's "Asshole"...