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Brock Yates (October 21, 1933 – October 5, 2016) was a prominent American journalist, TV commentator, TV reporter, screenwriter, and author. He was the longtime executive editor at Car and Driver magazine — and contributed to The Washington Post, Playboy, The American Spectator, Boating, Vintage Motorsports as well as other publications. [1]
Based on the 1991 biography Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine by motorsport journalist Brock Yates, the film follows the personal and professional struggles of Enzo Ferrari, the Italian founder of the car manufacturer Ferrari, during the summer of 1957 as Scuderia Ferrari prepares to compete in the 1957 Mille Miglia.
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Oct 6, 2016 · Brock Yates, Car and Driver ’s Assassin, lost his long battle with Alzheimer’s on October 5, 2016. We take solace in the words he crafted for this publication, his screenplays, and his...
Oct 6, 2016 · A Tribute to the Late Brock Yates. A master of automotive journalism dead at 82. Steven Cole Smith Writer Oct 06, 2016. See All 2 Photos. I would not be here—"here" being this career, for better ...
- Steven Cole Smith
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Oct 7, 2016 · Brock Yates, an automotive journalist who founded an anarchic, cross-country road race in the 1970s, then fictionalized it in the script for the 1981 Burt Reynolds film “The Cannonball Run,”...
Oct 14, 2016 · Racer, Writer, Rebel, Car Guy: Brock Yates was the defining automotive journalist of his day. He derided federal automotive-safety regulators as “killjoys and pecksniffs.”. He maybe could forgive Nixon for Watergate, but never for the 55 miles-an-hour speed limit.
Oct 6, 2016 · Brock Yates — automotive legend, former editor of Car and Driver, race car driver, founder of the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea-Memorial Trophy Dash (a.k.a.
