NASCAR 75: No. 65 in a series of 75 stories that helped define the first three quarters of a century of NASCAR.
Bill Lester was the first Black driver to start an Xfinity Series race and the first to win poles in the Craftsman Truck Series.
After watching a Can-Am race at Laguna Seca with his father at the age of seven, Bill Lester decided he wanted to be a race car driver. He eventually became a one-man drive for diversity in NASCAR. Bill Lester was a full-time driver in the NASCAR Truck Series from 2002-07 and had 143 starts total over nine different seasons.Winning three poles, Lester was consistently competitive in the Truck Series despite no prior oval racing or short track experience, completing 21,228 laps as a factory driver and leading 92.
Lester’s remarkable late start as a pro driver began after initial success in SCCA, IMSA and the Trans-Am. Frustrated by not finding a path forward, Lester quit his job at Hewlett Packard to pursue racing full time at age 37. He was the winner of a tryout hosted by CART for black drivers, but it had a catch—he needed to bring $2 million in sponsorship to compete in Indy Lights. That turned him toward NASCAR.
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