“There were many things we shared in terms of life experiences and different things, so we spent a lot of time together,” said York of his relationship with Stein. Kevin York became Denny Swift when Stein was inspired to write the novel.
York’s mentoring left an impression on Stein that continued long past the author’s own somewhat abbreviated career as a race car driver. So, I think that’s really sort of the mentor-mentee relationship is being willing to share one’s experiences with other people in the hopes that they can pick up on that.” “What I love about my relationship with Kevin is that he had that ethic and he was more than willing to share that with me. “You know, ‘Plan your drive and drive your plan’ is always one that was bandied about when I was getting started. “There’s all sorts of little mantras in the racing world and Enzo gives us plenty of them in the book,” Stein said. York was Stein’s driving instructor when he attended ProFormance Racing School at Pacific Raceways near Seattle in the mid-2000s. The story of race car driver Denny Swift as told through the eyes of his golden retriever, Enzo, is inspired by an actual, real-life racer by the name of Kevin York. Any racing enthusiast who has read Garth Stein’s best-selling novel, “The Art of Racing in the Rain” - and anybody who will see its film adaptation when it hits theaters later this week - is quick to point out the authenticity of the racing sequences depicted in the story.Īnd there’s a good reason for it.
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