Bill Lester, 60, returning to NASCAR after 14 years
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Bill Lester is returning to NASCAR racing at age 60 to promote his new book, which chronicles his shift from being a Hewlett-Packard engineer to full-time racing driver.
The one-race return comes as Lester is promoting his book "Winning in Reverse: Defying the Odds and Achieving Dreams — The Bill Lester Story." Lester was an engineer at Hewlett-Packard when he quit his job at age 40 to pursue a racing career. "I had not been looking to get back involved in the sport. I've been very content just watching," Lester said Tuesday. "But I wrote this motivational memoir — it is not an autobiography, I want to make that very clear — it is a motivational story with a motorsports backdrop and my story of how I was able to live my dream. "I talk about getting out of your comfort zone and this will truly be an example of me getting out of my comfort zone. I could very easily continue to sit on the couch and watch, but here I am going to jump back in the deep end at one of the fastest tracks on the circuit."More Related News