Article March 12, 2012 Issue

Driven by faith

Kim Shippey

One of the most heartening success stories of the sporting year 2011, was Trevor Bayne’s triumph in the Daytona 500 in which the 20-year-old rookie became the youngest race driver in history to win the famous event. 

Trevor’s story is told in a slim 113-page paperback, Driven by Faith, written by an experienced motorsports journalist, Godwin Kelly (Zonderkidz, 2012). Its target audience appears to be young people who are likely to be inspired by Trevor’s approach to racing and to life in general, and learn from heaps of photographs and informative sidebars about NASCAR racing.

At the age of two, Trevor developed his driving skills in a battery-powered toy car, graduating to dirt bikes and go-karts three years later. He competed for eight years on the go-kart circuit, winning three world championships. Throughout his high-speed career, from his teenage start driving for his dad’s racing team in the stock car Pro Cup Series in Charlotte, North Carolina, to his surprise win last year in NASCAR’s biggest race, Trevor attributes all his success to God.

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