page_title: Ken Schrader Racing
section_title: ARCA Menards Series
hierarchical_section_title: Ken Schrader Racing / ARCA Menards Series
caption_attribution_description: English: Matt Tifft
context_page_description: Ken Schrader Racing is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, fielding the No. 52 for Natalie Decker. The team is owned by longtime NASCAR driver Ken Schrader. Over the years, Schrader has also fielded his team in the NASCAR Cup, Xfinity, and Truck Series in addition to in ARCA.
context_section_description: For 2016, the No. 52 team ran with one driver for the full season for the first time in over three years, with Matt Kurzejewski joining the team after getting many good finishes driving part-time for his own team for a few years. Despite not winning any races, he earned a third place finish in points. Also, they picked up sponsorship from Menards (as well as Ansell), which moved over to KSR after sponsoring Frank Kimmel since 2009. They replaced Federated Auto Parts as the team's full season sponsor.
  The team ran the full ARCA Racing Series schedule in 2017 with Austin Theriault. However, Menards did not return in 2017, and they were only able to find sponsors race-by-race. The team scored 7 wins en route to the championship, which Theriault and the team clinched in the penultimate race at Kentucky. The team struggled with finding sponsorship both that year and in 2018, and as a result, the team only guaranteed Theriault to run the car at the 2018 season opener at Daytona. However, weeks before the start of the season, those plans changed as the team signed up-and-comer Will Rodgers to drive for KSR part-time, starting at Daytona and then in a second car with sponsorship from Drydene. He had previously driven for KSR at ARCA's testing at Daytona in January 2018. Because Rodgers brought a sponsor and Theriault did not, Theriault was left without a ride. At the same time, they announced that Brandon Grosso would attempt to run all the races for them after Daytona (where he was still only 17 and not eligible to run there). Grosso was eventually released during the season, and Rodgers moved from the No. 11 car (which Schrader fielded in a collaboration with Fast Track Racing) to the team's primary car, the No. 52, for his remaining starts.
  After his own team was also struggling financially, Bret Holmes did not field his own No. 23 car at the race at Iowa and drove Schrader's No. 52 instead for that race along with two others. In 2019, the team only ran two races, at Daytona with Tyler Dippel and DuQuoin with Schrader himself.
  For 2020, Schrader's team partnered with late model team Fury Race Cars to jointly field Fury's driver Natalie Decker in the No. 52 at Daytona in preparation for her start in the Truck Series race there driving for Niece Motorsports. This will not be Fury's first time running a stock-car team, as they fielded a part-time Xfinity Series team in 2018 (but not in 2019).
caption: Matt Tifft drove Schrader's No. 52 in ARCA part-time in 2014
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