ANGELLE THE CHEERLEADER
Sat, 2008-11-01 09:00
Had Angelle Sampey known a cheerleader outfit would factor into vaulting her to the top of the 
qualifying list she might have donned the Halloween outfit back in March.
Sampey, who described Halloween as her second favorite holiday next to Christmas, rode her way to her first provisional No. 1 qualifying of the season and first on a Buell during the NHRA ACDelco Las Vegas Nationals. If her track record 6.993 elapsed time holds, she’ll collect her 45th career low qualifying effort.
It just so happens Sampey deems the fall Vegas event as her favorite stop on the tour. The Pro Stock Motorcycles only run the second Vegas event. Had Angelle Sampey known a cheerleader outfit would factor into vaulting her to the top of thequalifying list she might have donned the Halloween outfit back in March.
Sampey, who described Halloween as her second favorite holiday next to Christmas, rode her way to her first provisional No. 1 qualifying of the season and first on a Buell during the NHRA ACDelco Las Vegas Nationals. If her track record 6.993 elapsed time holds, she’ll collect her 45th career low qualifying effort.
It just so happens Sampey deems the fall Vegas event as her favorite stop on the tour. The Pro Stock Motorcycles only run the second Vegas event.
“We were cracking jokes about how we wanted to come up in our Halloween costumes for the final session,” Sampey said. “It’s hard for me to be in a cheerleader outfit and change into my leathers. My team told me that I had to make a really good run in the first session so I could be in the back for the second session. That’s why I was really focused in the first session.”
Sampey, by her own admission, suffered ill-fortunes at the first to middle part of the season. She believes now the Rush Racing Buell team has found their groove.
“Our sponsors have been great and they know we can do better,” Sampey added. “There have been glitches here and there for us. We are thankful we are as high in the points as we are.”
She was thankful that her great performance coincided with trick-or-treat evening.
Sampey was joined in her Halloween celebration by a score of her Pro Stock Motorcycle comrades. She accepts responsibility for inspiring the festive atmosphere.
“I wanted to show all the people in the stands that the Pro Stock Motorcycle class can be really cool,” Sampey admitted. “We’re all really good friends in the class. Unfortunately many of the spectators had started to leave the grandstands when we came up and they saw our costumes on the sidelines, they stopped and watched.”
Sampey’s outfit was a nice rendition of an NHRA cheerleader outfit, not to be confused with the ill-conceived POWERade cheerleader concept of the 2000 season.
Why not a costume bearing the name of her sponsor?
“I thought what I should do, Rush or NHRA, but I figured the NHRA might like me more in their outfit and I might get on television,” Sampey admitted. “If you can’t win a race, you have to do what you can to get on television. I didn’t feel like crashing or catching on fire so this is what I had to do.”
qualifying list she might have donned the Halloween outfit back in March.Sampey, who described Halloween as her second favorite holiday next to Christmas, rode her way to her first provisional No. 1 qualifying of the season and first on a Buell during the NHRA ACDelco Las Vegas Nationals. If her track record 6.993 elapsed time holds, she’ll collect her 45th career low qualifying effort.
It just so happens Sampey deems the fall Vegas event as her favorite stop on the tour. The Pro Stock Motorcycles only run the second Vegas event. Had Angelle Sampey known a cheerleader outfit would factor into vaulting her to the top of the
qualifying list she might have donned the Halloween outfit back in March.Sampey, who described Halloween as her second favorite holiday next to Christmas, rode her way to her first provisional No. 1 qualifying of the season and first on a Buell during the NHRA ACDelco Las Vegas Nationals. If her track record 6.993 elapsed time holds, she’ll collect her 45th career low qualifying effort.
It just so happens Sampey deems the fall Vegas event as her favorite stop on the tour. The Pro Stock Motorcycles only run the second Vegas event.
“We were cracking jokes about how we wanted to come up in our Halloween costumes for the final session,” Sampey said. “It’s hard for me to be in a cheerleader outfit and change into my leathers. My team told me that I had to make a really good run in the first session so I could be in the back for the second session. That’s why I was really focused in the first session.”
Sampey, by her own admission, suffered ill-fortunes at the first to middle part of the season. She believes now the Rush Racing Buell team has found their groove.
“Our sponsors have been great and they know we can do better,” Sampey added. “There have been glitches here and there for us. We are thankful we are as high in the points as we are.”
She was thankful that her great performance coincided with trick-or-treat evening.
Sampey was joined in her Halloween celebration by a score of her Pro Stock Motorcycle comrades. She accepts responsibility for inspiring the festive atmosphere.
“I wanted to show all the people in the stands that the Pro Stock Motorcycle class can be really cool,” Sampey admitted. “We’re all really good friends in the class. Unfortunately many of the spectators had started to leave the grandstands when we came up and they saw our costumes on the sidelines, they stopped and watched.”
Sampey’s outfit was a nice rendition of an NHRA cheerleader outfit, not to be confused with the ill-conceived POWERade cheerleader concept of the 2000 season.
Why not a costume bearing the name of her sponsor?
“I thought what I should do, Rush or NHRA, but I figured the NHRA might like me more in their outfit and I might get on television,” Sampey admitted. “If you can’t win a race, you have to do what you can to get on television. I didn’t feel like crashing or catching on fire so this is what I had to do.”
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