Above, from left: Pamela Yates with Dan Gurney, Evi Gurney and Brock Yates.Motorsports journalist and "The Cannonball Run" screenwriter Brock Yates has died after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease."Today, after suffering with Alzheimer's for the last 12 years, my father finally succumbed," Brock Yates Jr. wrote on Facebook. "He...

RACER's Robin Miller tells the tale of participating in the Cannonball Run – a legendary outlaw event that saw teams race from New York to California – which spawned movies and plenty of unbelievable tales since the 1970s.