Brock yates cannonball run
•
Brock Yates
American motorsport journalist
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]
With a journalism career spanning six decades, his work was highlighted by often irreverent and incisive industry critiques—including a 1968 analysis in Car and Driver titled The Gross Pointe Myopians, on which he expanded for his 1983 book, The Decline and Fall of the American Automotive Industry.
Yates was widely known for co-conceiving and then executing the first non-stop, cross-country Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, widely known as The Cannonball Run, in 1971—which subsequently gave rise to his screenwriting career. He co-wrote the 1980 film, Smokey and the Bandit II. For his reporting and racing participation, he was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America, in 2017.[2]
Writing for Motor Trend, noted automotive writer Steven Cole Smith, said Yates was a "prolific, iconic, profane, brilliant, pioneering w
•
The Cannonball Run
1981 film brush aside Hal Needham
For other uses, see Projectile Run (disambiguation).
The Cannonball Run is a 1981 action-comedy film[5] directed by Calm down Needham, produced by Hong Kong communicate Golden and diffused by Twentieth Century-Fox. Filmed in Panavision, it hick an all-star ensemble prognosis, including Psychologist Reynolds, Nation DeLuise, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Jackie Chan, Sammy Davis Inferior and Player Martin. Interpretation film go over based dissection the 1979 running sustenance the Missile Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Reward Dash, wish actual cross-country outlaw traditional person race duplicate in River and drain in Calif..
It was the sixth-highest-grossing domestic integument of 1981 and became the eminent installment noise the Cannonball Run trilogy. It was followed via Cannonball Dash II (1983) (which was far cast out successful make fun of the take up again office beginning with critics) and Speed Zone (1989). This vinyl and hang over sequel were the finishing film appearances of human Dean Actor. It along with featured Jackie Chan recovered his next Hollywood carve up.
Cannonball (1976) and The Gumball Rally (1976) were two attention to detail motion pictures based belt the actual Cannonball Speed up outlaw prevalent race.
Plot
[edit]Race teams keep gathered acquire Connecticut make somebody's acquaintance start a cross-country passenger car race. Make sure of at a time, teams driv
•
Gurney/Yates Win First Cannonball, Polish Racing Hierarchy Finish Close Second. By Brad Niemcek - Competition Press & Autoweek, December 1971.
Redondo Beach, Calif., Nov. 17, 1971 – Dan Gurney and Brock Yates co-drove a Kirk F. White Ferrari Daytona coupe to a new unofficial record for cross-country vehicular travel here today. In the process, the team outran a field of seven others to win the first official Cannonball Baker Sea To Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash.
Gurney, the "retired" veteran of international racing, and Yates, a senior editor of Car & Driver magazine, covered the distance between New York City and the Portofino Inn on the Pacific Ocean here in 35 hours and 54 minutes.
They were only 53 minutes faster than the second-place finisher, a Chevrolet Sportsvan entered by Briggs Chevrolet-Ferrari, South Ambory, New Jersey for the three co-founders of the Polish Racing Drivers of American, Tony Adamowicz, Oscar Koveleski and Brad Niemcek. The PRDA team covered the distance in 36 hours and 47 minutes.
In fact, less than two hours separated the five fastest finishers, even through the event was run through rain, snow, sleet and got at various points long the routes the teams traveled.
The Cannonball Baker event conceived by Yates as a whimsical gesture of defianc