Episode 115: Billy Mauldin - Finding the Silver Lining in a Sky Filled With Clouds

Sports Connections with David Smale

They say that baseball is a game of failure, where even the best fail seven out of 10 times. How about a sport where only one of 40 competitors is successful? Welcome to the world of auto racing, specifically NASCAR. The public persona of a race car driver is a tough, self-sufficient dude, focused only on winning the next weekend’s race. But that’s not necessarily true. Drivers, crew members, team owners and everyone involved in the sport have lives away from the track, including family issues and questions about their own mortality like every other human being. Billy Mauldin leads Motor Racing Outreach, an organization solely intent on helping those people cope with the pressures of life in sports’ most-difficult arena for achieving success.