Biography
Brock Yates (1933–2016) was an American journalist, author and screenwriter. He served for four decades as executive editor and contributor at Car and Driver magazine, and wrote for publications including The Washington Post, Playboy and The American Spectator.
Yates co-created the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash road race in 1971. He wrote the screenplays for Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) and The Cannonball Run (1981), and the book Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races, the Machine, on which the 2023 film Ferrari was based. He was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2017.
