You don’t want to crawl through sewers. You don’t want to clean the slaughterhouse. You don’t want to handle Barry Bonds’ public relations.
And you’d think that you’d be far too nervous to teach teenagers how to drive every day, day in and day out. But now that he’s no longer driving a racecar, that’s exactly what Larry Pearson is doing these days ... teaching driver’s ed in Spartanburg, S.C.
The thing about Pearson, a two-time Busch Series champion and one of three sons of NASCAR legend David Pearson, is that he loves his job. He enjoys working with the kids and gets a kick out of discussing his racing career with them and their parents. Ninety percent of them, he says, already know how to drive, for the most part, by the time they get to him.
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