Back when he was running the USAC Sprint car, Midget and Silver Crown series all at once, and winning in all of them, the Missouri native Ken Schrader became known as America’s busiest race driver, racking up a man-breaking schedule that saw him race 100 or more times each year before joining, and winnng in, the NASCAR Cup Series. Schrader co-wrote his memoirs for the first time about 20 years ago, with our friends at Coastal 181 in Newburyport, Massachusetts handing a stellar publishing job.
Time’s moved on and so has Schrader’s career, which has transitioned away from NASCAR and now focuses on UMP-style Modifieds across the nation’s dirt tracks, including several Florida appearances at Volusia Speedway Park. Those changes are documented in a reissued and updated version of Schrader’s story, called Still Racing! and primarily written by the historian, journalist, and racing dynasty member Joyce Standridge. The book is told in Schrader’s voice, is strongly illustrated and tells this bona-fide competitor’s story up to the present day. It’s one of gobs of scholarly, exquisitely crafted books on American short-track racing that are Coastal 181’s publishing specialties.
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