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Ken Schrader

 
Ken Schrader began racing in 1971 as a 17-year old at Lake hill Speedway in Missouri and won the Sportsman championship there in his first season. In the time since, he has become America's definition of a 'Real Racer'. A term as coveted as it is attainable by anyone in the sport.

By 198, Schrader was running USAC stock cars and was Rookie of the Year in Sprint cars, taking that title in '83 when he was also attempteing to qualify for the Indianapolis 500. Only a deflated tire and a destroyed race car stood in his way of joining the elite filed of 33 on Memorial Day.

Schrader spent three decades running at the highest levels of NASCAR competition running 763 races in the Cup series and winning four.
This past summer, he became the oldest, at 64, to earn the poke for an ARCA race.
Schrader has competed and won at nearly every track of significance in open wheel and stock car classes, such as Ascot, Eldora, Thunder Road, Syracuse, Salem, Winchester, Belleville and Daytona. Schrader made it to the A-Main at Knoxville (IA) the last year they ran without wings.

Along with decades of success, he's wrecked more than a few times, but has gone without public feuds. Despite countless car owners, from the most modest to the ultra wealthy, Schrader has come and gone from rides, sponsorships and sanctioning bodies without a trace of anyone left angry. 
                                                      

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  • History of the EMPA
    • History of the EMPA-The 1970's
    • History of the EMPA- 80's
    • History of the EMPA- The 1990's
    • History of the EMPA- The 2000's
    • History of the EMPA- The 2010's
    • History of the EMPA- The 2020's
  • EMPA Application
  • EMPA Hall of Fame A thru L
  • EMPA Hall of Fame M thru Z
  • Convention Sponsors
  • Convention Hotel Info & Room Reservations
  • Convention Photos
    • Convention Photos 2016
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    • Convention Photos 2018
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    • Video acceptance speeches from Jan 2022 convention
  • Convention Contest Rules
    • Pocono Raceway/EMPA Writer's Contest
    • Brice's Auto Parts Inc./NAPA Auto Parts EMPA Photographer's Contest
    • Dirt Track Digest.com./EMPA Video and Broadcast Contest Rules
  • Award Winners
    • EMPA National Driver of the Year
    • Junie Donlavey Spirit of the Sport award
    • Richie Evans North East Driver of the Year
    • Ace Lane Photographer of the Year
    • Jim Hunter Writer of the Year
    • Newsmaker of the Year award
    • John Blewett lll Young Gun award presented by New England Fuels
    • Jerry Reigel Outstanding Contribution to Sprint Car Racing award
    • Promotional Effort of the Year
    • Ernie & Marilyn Saxton Service Award
    • Pocono Raceway Writer's Contest Judges Comments by Year
    • Honda Video Contest Winners by Year
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