Howie DiSavino III - NASCAR driver on battling anger, having patience and overcoming the loss of his mom
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🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Howie DiSavino III is a NASCAR driver who in 2022 reached the second-highest division of stock car racing, the NASCAR Xfinity Series. In the summer of 2019, DiSavino made his ARCA Menards Series debut (a semi-pro league for stock car racing) and two years after that he was racing in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. He took 2023 off but plans to return to racing in 2024.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Howie DiSavino III about his racing journey, growing up on a farm in Chesterfield, Virginia, losing his mom to cancer in 2021, battling anger and growing in his faith after that tragic loss.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, coming up today on Sports Spectrum, a unique story. This is a kid who was eight years old in Howie |
| 0:06.1 | DeSavino III and dreamed and said, I want to be a NASCAR driver someday. In 2022, he reached the |
| 0:13.8 | second highest division of stock car racing, the NASCAR Xfinity series. So he achieved that dream. And he wants to keep going. He wants to get to the highest |
| 0:22.8 | level of NASCAR. And he wants to take over NASCAR. It's his words saying that. But his journey |
| 0:29.4 | has taken some interesting twists and turns as a kid who grew up on a farm in Chesterfield, |
| 0:34.3 | Virginia. And then in 2021, at the age of 20, he loses his mom to cancer. So there's a lot |
| 0:41.7 | to talk about here. There's the highs and then there's the lows. There's staying grounded in |
| 0:47.0 | God and staying connected to Jesus. And then there's those times when you're angry and you're |
| 0:51.9 | grieving and sometimes God feels far away. |
| 0:54.8 | So this was a really good conversation with Howie DeSavino the Third, up and coming NASCAR driver. |
| 1:01.6 | And I think he's going to be a guy we're going to follow, we're going to root for, and we're |
| 1:04.9 | going to see doing some great things on that track down the road. |
| 1:08.3 | So Howie DeSavino the Third coming up up in just a moment. I just want to remind you |
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