Article April 17, 2000 Issue

A shining light at the track

An interview with race car driver Doug Jenkins

Rick Lipsey with contributions from Doug Jenkins

Doug Jenkins got interested in car racing while hanging around tracks as a kid in northern California. By age sixteen, he was working in the pit for his stepbrother, who was a stock car driver. Jenkins moved with his wife to Alaska after college, and living near a track in Fairbanks rekindled his passion for racing. Jenkins was one of the top drivers in Alaska before moving to St. Louis, where he currently owns a car restoration business and races stock and sprint cars throughout the Midwest. Rick Lipsey, a reporter at Sports Illustrated, spoke with Jenkins about the influence Christian Science has had on his racing career.

How do you prepare for a race?

Racing is incredibly exhilarating, but along with such high speeds comes the suggestion of danger and of failure. So every day before a race, in addition to my study of the weekly Lesson-Sermon, which includes citations from the Bible and Science and Health, I get real quiet and listen to what the Father would have me learn that day. I affirm that my true being is spiritual, perfect, and eternal, unchangeable and unaffected by mortality. I know that's true for everyone else, as well.

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