The 3-time Pro Stock Motorcycle champion can't wait for first Top Alcohol dragster showdown with the driver she once thought was a 'butthead.'
Three-time NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle champion Angelle Sampey is switching to dragsters, starting with as many as three events this season.Sampey remembers her first meeting with Stewart, and leaving less than impressed. The two are now friends.
Stewart is having an outstanding sophomore campaign, currently a close second in the TA/D standings, just nine points behind series leader Shawn Cowie. Stewart is a legitimate threat to become the first driver in racing history to ever win championships in IndyCar, NASCAR and in NHRA. Pruett wasn’t the only one offering Sampey advice. Stewart did the same, as did three-time Top Fuel champ Antron Brown. Brown is leading Sampey's transition from bikes to dragsters through AB Motorsports' new Accelerate Program to help develop drivers.“I have several pictures and video from Monday’s testing where Tony’s leaning over in the car talking to me,” Sampey said. “He was actually helping me a lot. He was telling me what to expect, what it was gonna feel like.
“She says, ‘Oh girl, I don’t care about that. We know who we’re going home with.’ So we’ve become pretty good friends over the last couple years. And it meant a lot to me that he was interested enough to stay up there with me at the starting line to watch me run.”Not only did Pruett and Stewart give Sampey advice during the Brainerd test, three-time Top Fuel champ, former PSM rider and the boss of Sampey’s TA/D effort, Antron Brown, was also a steadying presence there.
The first time Sampey met Stewart about 20 years ago at a NASCAR race, she wasn’t exactly impressed – and recalled that meeting when she spoke to Stewart recently.“I said to him, ‘Do you remember us meeting 20-something years ago at a NASCAR race that you were competing in?’” Sampey said. “They brought him over and introduced us to each other and he didn’t speak to me. He just kind of reached out and shook my hand but didn’t say anything.
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