Brock Yates was a gifted writer and screenwriter (Smokey and the Bandit) who served as the managing editor of Car & Driver magazine from 1964 until 2006. In his book, Against Death and Time, he uses a technique which he refers to as faction. In it, the story is told ...
Book Review: Against Death and Time by Brock Yates
January 24, 2024 by uvsw14Leave a comment
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The Winningest Driver in IMS History
January 9, 2024 by uvsw14Leave a comment
The winningest driver at IMS isn’t one of the four-time Indianapolis 500 winners or Jeff Gordon, who won five Brickyard 400 races. Rather, it is Johnny Aitken who amassed fifteen victories on the fabled track. Known as “Happy Johnny,” he started racing in 1905 as a member of the National ...
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Brickyard Crossing
January 8, 2024 by uvsw14Leave a comment
Brickyard Crossing, Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s golf course, can trace its origins to the 1920s in Miami Beach. Golf was becoming a pastime of the rich and the people who wintered in Carl Fisher’s Miami Beach resort demanded it. Interestingly, Fisher really didn’t care for golf. In fact, he was terrible ...
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Book Review: Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machines by Brock Yates
January 8, 2024 by uvsw14Leave a comment
The movie Ferrari, which will make its debut in theaters on Christmas Day, is based upon Brock Yates book, Enzo Ferrari, published in 1991. Like the movie Ford v Ferrari, the movie is a small slice of a larger history. The book is aptly named as it covers the entirety of Enzo Ferrari’s life. During his ...
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Carl Fisher’s Automobile Promotions
January 8, 2024 by uvsw14Leave a comment
Fisher loved promoting bicycles and when he converted his bicycle shop to an automobile agency (dealership), the promotions became even more outlandish.
He reached back into his playbook and resurrected throwing a bicycle off a building in downtown Indianapolis. In the initial stunt, whomever picked up the crumpled bicycle and ...
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