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Bill Lester was born in 1961 and graduated from Skyline High School in Oakland, California in 1979. He was awarded a Regents Scholarship to attend the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science in 1984.
Before becoming a professional race car driver, he spent 15 years working initially as a computer scientist and then as a software development project manager for Hewlett-Packard. But he left H-P at 37 years of age to pursue his true passion of becoming a professional race car driver. Lester eventually competed in NASCAR and also raced sports cars professionally. Over his 10-year career, he won over $2 million in prize money, drove over 30,000 laps, earned multiple podium finishes, led laps, and won. In 2012, Bill completed his stellar racing career by proudly representing Team USA during international karting competition.
Bill enjoyed some significant honors and achievements during his racing career. While he was racing in NASCAR, General Mills featured him on Honey Nut Cheerios collector edition cereal boxes for two consecutive years. Lester also appeared on the cover of Black Enterprise magazine and had feature articles written about him in USA Today, The New York Times, and Car and Driver magazine, among many other publications.
Lester also performed TV work while he was racing with a two-year stint as a broadcast analyst for the Fox Sports South show called “Around the Track”, and later for the NBC Sports show called “NASCAR America.”
Bill is now an author with his first published work, Winning In Reverse, having just released in February. A motivational memoir, the book identifies his eight keys to successfully achieving his dream of becoming a professional race car driver that anyone can apply toward living their best life.
In March, Bill returned to the driving cockpit having initially thought his professional racing days were behind him. He competed in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race in Atlanta, Georgia. It had been fourteen years since Bill last raced a NASCAR vehicle and, at sixty years of age, he achieved yet another remarkable milestone.
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