Y'know, I dig cars and car racing. But I also appreciate motorcycles and bike racing as well. And I think I'm long overdue to show a little love for motorcycle racing. And to keep with this week's salute to the women of motorsport racing, I have selected a hot vid of Pro Stock Motorcycle superstar Angelle Sampey.
Besides her status as a female in a male dominated sport, Angelle Sampey is a rare breed in the bike racing world. She owns a record of consecutive qualifying races starting with her debut in 1996, leaving her previous career as a nurse in a cloud of dust. In addition, Sampey is one of only two women in NHRA history to have over ten event wins and three championships in her division of Pro Stock Motorcycle.
One of Angelle's biggest career accomplishments is her Pro Stock Motorcycle time-setting elapsed time record run of 6.871 seconds. Sampey accomplished this feat first in 2007 at an NHRA event in New Jersey riding her trademark Suzuki bike. This video here further cements this feat as no mere fluke, seeing Sampey once again clock in under the 7 second mark, and handily defeating her opponent. Her Pro Stock Motorcycle time record was only broken back in March of this year by Matt Smith, and then topped just a little while later by Andrew Hines. Still, Angelle Sampey has made her mark as a woman in sports and a future legend in motorsports.
It's a safe assumption that women could have a hard time being taken seriously as competitors in the professional auto racing world. If you factor in being on the younger side of the age spectrum, getting respect is probably that much tougher. Well, in today's blog post in this week's salute to women drivers in the car racing world, we take a look at young Erica Enders and her rise to prominence in the auto racing world.
Erica Enders was born in 1983 and began drag racing at the tender age of 8. Erica chalked up 37 wins in her eight years as a Junior Dragster, and in 2000 she made her jump to NHRA, where she was crowned the NHRA Sportsman "Rookie of the Year" and was the youngest ever NHRA National Event Finalist. Hell, this girl even had a Disney TV movie made about her called "Right On Track." Wow. She's experienced all of this success, and she's only in her twenties. That's amazing.
In 2005, Erica graduated to NHRA's Pro Stock Category, the first woman to do so in over a decade. And this video features Erica rockin' her pink Ford "Dragstar" car in a qualifying run against Roger Brogdon at Bristol Dragway earlier this year. I found the loudspeaker commentary to be almost as entertaining as the race itself, but nothing can beat the burning rubber and engine roars that emanate from the drag strip. Regardless, this isn't no little girl playing grown-up; this is a woman and a professional, and damn successful at what she does.
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