I had a chance to interview NASCAR driver Eric McClure a while back for Baptist Press Sports. We had a candid conversation about his faith and his racing career.
As we spoke, he didn’t know if he would be back with the same racing team next season or if he would even be racing in the Nationwide Series (where he started 32 of 35 races in 2008 and finished 21st in the overall standings).
Here’s a little of what he had to say:
“I have a lot of guys here [on my race team] who I really like and worry about and I want to look out for them,” McClure said. “But for the first time in my life, I have peace that God may not want me to race—that there will come a time when he may put me somewhere else and that’ll be fine. Before, I was always worried about what I would do. But if he has something else for us, then that’s OK too.”
Here’s a link to the article I wrote about McClure for Baptist Press Sports and here’s a link to McClure’s testimony that can be found on his website.
