Twilight of the idylls

The Silicon Valley guys have a new hobby: driving fast cars around private tracks. They love it.“When you’re really in the zone in a racecar, it’s almost meditative,” Google executive Jeff Huber tells the Times’ Farhad Manjoo. AddsYahoosenior vice presidentJeff Bonforte, “Your brain is so happy that it washes over you.” The Valley guys are a little nervous about the optics of their pastime —“Try to tone down the rich guy hobby thing,” angel investor and ex-Googler Joshua Schachter instructsM...