HOW TO PURCHASE THE BOOK: GOTTA RACE! is destined to be a precedent-setting, historic book about one of the raciest men of our times. Soft-cover with 320 pages, it is available at $23.95 plus $6.00 shipping and handling. To order, call Coastal 181 toll free at 877-907-8181 or online at www.coastal181.com
COASTAL 181 ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF
KEN SCHRADER AUTOBIOGRAPHY, GOTTA RACE!
Newburyport, Mass., March 27, 2006 –Motorsports publisher Coastal 181 has announced the release of GOTTA RACE!, the autobiography of popular Nextel Cup driver Ken Schrader. The book was written with Joyce Standridge and includes forewords by Rick Hendrick and Bones Bourcier. GOTTA RACE! is the latest in Coastal 181’s series of race driver biographies, which has included RICHIE! (Richie Evans), BUGSY! (Bugsy Stevens), They Called Me ‘The Shoe’ (Ken Shoemaker), and Life Wide Open (Dave Dion).
Ken Schrader is a four-time Winston Cup winner and three-time pole sitter at the Daytona 500, currently driving for the famed Wood Brothers/JTG Racing team in the #21. Schrader is also America’s acknowledged Prince of the Short Tracks – race anywhere, anytime – on dirt or asphalt, in Nextel Cup, sprint car, midget or dirt late model.
GOTTA RACE! recounts 35 years of racing adventures, told in Schrader’s own distinctive voice to Standridge, a nationally known racing columnist. The book covers all of Schrader’s career – from his beginnings in the 1970s at tiny St. Louis-area bullrings, to wild open-wheel rides around the country, to the glamour of Indianapolis and Daytona. The author also shares an intimate look at family life, his views on racing today, and thoughts on how to get started in racing. A successful entrepreneur who now owns tracks in Missouri and Kentucky, Schrader talks about the business side of racing and his plans for the future, once he hangs up his Nextel Cup helmet.
GOTTA RACE! also provides insight into Schrader’s many racing relationships. One chapter is devoted to his friendships with luminaries like Dale Earnhardt, Sr. and Jr., Richard Petty, Tony Stewart, Cale Yarborough, and many others. The book is packed with 350 photographs, both dramatic and touching, that serve as a personal history of the past 35 years of the sport. It also includes 59 pages of Schrader’s race records, detailing his races from 1971 – 2005, listing date, track, type of car, car owner, race winner, Schrader’s finish, and comments about the race.
GOTTA RACE! is destined to be a precedent-setting, historic book about one of the raciest men of our times. Soft-cover with 320 pages, it is available at $23.95 plus $6.00 shipping and handling. To order, call Coastal 181 toll free at 877-907-8181 or online at www.coastal181.com
