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 ...
Alberto Ascari
Book Review: Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Cars, The Races, The Machines by Brock Yates
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 ...
The Crisis in Auto Racing
Auto racing is inherently dangerous. The 1955 Championship racing season was particularly bloody and brought things to a head for the AAA Contest Board, which was the sanctioning body not only for championship racing but also for sprint cars, run on one-half mile tracks, midgets run on one-quarter mile tracks, ...