Angelle Sampey
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Angelle Sampey, born Angelle Monique Sampey, August 7, 1970, New Orleans, 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 44 top-qualifier awards 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.[1] 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.[2] Sampey also holds the active record of 169 consecutive races without a Did Not Qualify,[3] dating all the way back to her professional debut.[4]
Sampey raced a Suzuki from 1996 through 2007, sponsored most notably by R.J. Reynolds' Winston brand and the U.S. Army. She currently races a Buell for Karl Klement racing, sponsored by Rush Racing Products.[5]
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.
Sampey has been married twice, first marrying Kevin Seeling, then Nicky Savoie. She has competed as both Angelle Seeling and Angelle Savoie, before reverting to her maiden name.
[edit] References
- ^ ProCare Rx NHRA SuperNationals PRO STOCK MOTORCYCLE
- ^ Sampey Takes First Win of Motorcycle Racing Season
- ^ Antron Brown Race Advance
- ^ O’Reilly NHRA Midwest Nationals: Summit Racing Equipment Pontiac GXP
- ^ NHRA News: Sampey to race for Klement, Rush Racing Products in 2008 (12/20/2007)
