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Why Bill Lester Came Out of Retirement to Race NASCAR Trucks The Californian broke barriers in both stock car and sports car competition. Bill Lester has another story to tell. It’s been eight years since Lester last took a green flag and it’s been another six since his last appearance in NASCAR. But even after publishing an inspirational memoir with journalist Jonathan Ingram, the 60-year-old from Oakland, California has more chapters to write. Lester will tell you that the memoir, Winning In Reverse: Defying the Odds and Achieving Dreams, isn’t a biography. "It’s definitely not a...

Bill Lester followed Wendell Scott's lead to the NASCAR Cup Series NASCAR and sports car trailblazer 'heard the n-word, saw Confederate flag' on path to Cup Series By Al Pearce Joe RobbinsGetty Images Bill Lester, now 60 and living north of Atlanta, raced professionally in various pro series from 1998-2012. Lester's book titled Winning In Reverse: Defying the Odds and Achieving Dreams is scheduled to come out on February 2. Lester readily acknowledges he never faced anything like the racial and social backlash Wendell Scott faced in the ‘60s and ‘70s. A forthcoming book about re...