Angelle Sampey
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Angelle Sampey, born Angelle Monique Sampey, August 7, 1970, New Orleans, Louisiana, is an American Pro Stock Motorcycle racer. She has won the NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle championship three times (2000-2002). Since her debut in 1996, she has earned an all-time class record 45 top-qualifier awards[1] and 41 event victories, the most wins for any female in both NHRA competition and professional motor sports as a whole. On June 23, 2007 at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey, she scored her 42nd career pole position and more importantly set the national Pro Stock Motorcycle elapsed time record with a 6.871 second run.[2] Following her April 1, 2007 win in Houston, Texas, Sampey is just 5 wins away from setting the all-time Pro Stock Motorcycle wins record, currently held by Dave Schultz.[3] Sampey also holds the active record of 182 consecutive races without a Did Not Qualify,[4] dating all the way back to her professional debut.[5]
Sampey raced a Suzuki from 1996 through 2007, sponsored most notably by R.J. Reynolds' Winston brand and the U.S. Army. [6]
Along with Shirley Muldowney, Sampey is one of a very few women to have won a major motorsports championship title; she and Muldowney are the only female drag racers to have scored more than ten NHRA event wins, as well as the only two women in the sport to win more than one championship in their respective divisions, Muldowney with three in Top Fuel, and Sampey with three in Pro Stock Motorcycle.
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