The Motor Press Guild (MPG), the largest automotive media association in North America, held its 17th annual Dean Batchelor Award banquet at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles this week. The association’s awards honored those with outstanding automotive contributions in the areas of writing, audio/visual, photography and lifetime achievement.
Dean Batchelor Award: Senna, by Asif Kapadia and Manish Pandey.
Best Book: Elva, The Cars, The People, The History by Janos Wimpffen
Best Article: “Questor Grand Prix” by Tom Stahler
Best Photography: “Everybody’s a Photographer” by Reinhard Klein
Lifetime Achievement Award: Brock Yates was honored for his many contributions to both the automotive and entertainment industries. Not only was Mr. Yates the longtime executive editor of Car and Driver, but he reported for television motorsports, wrote numerous books, was the screenwriter for Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) and The Cannonball Run (1981) and he founded the famed coast-to-coast Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash (better known as the Cannonball Run), along with its eventual offshoot, One Lap of America.
Pictured is Brock Yates and his wife Pamela, with Laura Burstein, president of the Motor Press Guild. The full press release is below.
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