SuperBike Magazine November / December 2020

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On August 9, two days
after her 50th birthday,
American drag
racing legend Angelle
(pronounced ‘On-jell’)
Sampey won the Pro Stock final at
the Indianapolis Nationals, beating
Chris Bostick by almost a 10th
of a second.
It was her 43rd career victory
in a class dominated by men and
her first in four years. She’s also
been three times national champion
in a country where drag racing
is both huge and fiercely competitive.
And she did it by posting
a time of just 6.88secs over the
standing quarter (by comparison,
a stock S1000RR will do it in
about 10) aboard her incredibly
trick, factory-supported, Vance &
Hines-prepared Harley-Davidson
FXDR (see boxout) producing a
mind-warping 400bhp.
Not bad for a former Cajun
‘teenage beauty queen’ who then
became a nurse and actually retired
from the sport a decade ago
to start a family before returning
in 2014…
For those unfamiliar with US
drag racing, Sampey’s story is no
flash in the pan – and also follows