🇺🇸 Keith Drake

Keith Drake, rated 1,171 on Racer DB's scale, is a developing-level driver who raced in NASA, a national multiclass championship in which amateur and semi-professional entrants share the grid with graded professionals across fifteen classes. He drove for Ford, competing in the American Stock Car class in NASCAR-style late model stock cars, the CMC class in American pony cars, and the Factory Five Challenge class in Cobra-replica roadsters.[1]

Drake raced in NASA from 2004 to 2007, taking six podiums from thirty-one starts across those three classes. His final season came in 2007, when a single round left him 16th in the championship standings.[2]

The NASA grids Drake raced in were built around club and developing-level regulars. He usually finished behind James Griffith III, a club-level driver with extensive NASA starts, and typically ahead of Julie Bergman, another developing-level regular he met often. Against stronger opposition, he finished ahead of Brian Kamisky, a semi-professional with ARCA Menards West experience, on three occasions, and beat Manuel Gil del Real, a club-level driver who has also raced SVRA and Porsche Sprint Challenge USA West, once.