Brock Yates, a maverick automotive writer, commentator and magazine editor who was best known for creating — and winning — the madcap Cannonball Run coast-to-coast race, and who later wrote screenplays for two popular “Cannonball Run” movies, died Oct. 5 in Batavia, N.Y. He was 82.
The death was announced by a son, Brock Yates Jr. The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease.
At various times, Mr. Yates was … More