Posted on 12/17/2025 9:52:57 AM PST by WhiteHatBobby0701
Angelle Sampey had waited long enough to know the moment would never feel routine, not even with three world championships on her résumé. When she finally made her first pass in a Top Fuel dragster after the Las Vegas race, she carried a wish she couldn’t fulfill: her father had asked to see her drive one before he died, and he missed it by a week.
“It was supposed to happen a few months ago,” Sampey said. “We had actually had a test session planned for Monday after Ohio. I think it was Ohio, I think. And that got rained out all day long.”
For a month, she said, she cycled through “every emotion you could imagine with just straight up fear to being nervous and anxious to, okay, I think I can do this.” Then the weather ended it early. “I think it was either Saturday night, I think it might have even Saturday night they had already called it because of the weather forecast being so bad.”
Sampey is a three-time NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle champion, winning titles in 2000, 2001 and 2002, and she remains one of the category’s defining drivers with 46 national-event victories. But she said that résumé didn’t quiet the voice that shows up when something new carries real consequences.
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She worked on obtaining her nitro dragster licence to drove the 1,000 foot CH3NO2 beasts.
“Took off, the car went perfectly straight. It felt so smooth and so good,” she said, noting the car “buried me into the seat a little bit more” than A/Fuel.
Top Fuel car she will turn on you in a blink of an eye but gives you a ride of a life time and makes beautiful music.
It never made my to do list #!@*
quarter mile or half track?
i just wish they would fix the tracks to handle the greater speeds and allow them to race the full quarter mile.
half track changes everything and doesn’t compare with older records.
3/16 mile 10 feet.
A friend at an AHRA event had built an incredibly beautiful gasser ‘Vette. Black with green stripes and no ads.
His brother let him drive in the first race. My friend popped a wheelie and the other car crossed the finish before he even hit the ground.
Quick is the name of the game
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