Sylvia Wilkinson

She was a Motorsports Correspondent for Autoweek and is currently a World Book Encyclopedia contributor on auto racing.

She was an auto racing timer and scorer for many years for numerous drivers including Paul Newman, Al Unser Sr., Bobby Rahal and Keke Rosberg.

In 2012, her account of the 2.5 Trans-Am seasons featuring the Brock Racing team with driver John Morton during 1971 - 1972, "The Stainless Steel Carrot", originally published in 1973 by Houghton Mifflin, was reissued by Brown Fox Books with an update on the participants with all royalties going to animal rescue and wildlife groups.

In December 2014, her seventh novel: Big Cactus was published by Owl Canyon Press in Boulder, Colorado.

An updated version of "Dirt Tracks to Glory" was published by Racemaker Press, Boston, in April, 2022.