NHRA. Erica Enders Stephens

Women in drag racing — a phenomenon for the United States are no longer rare, but still admirable. Beauty, harnessing a herd of several thousand horses on the strip. What could be more attractive?

It is unlikely that the journalists were heard ESPN channel our outrage that in selecting the most outstanding female athlete, spared women professionally engaged in drag racing. But...

A month ago, have won their second league title pilotessa Team Elite Motorsports Erica Enders Stephens won well-deserved place in the ranking of espnW's IMPACT25, which included the names of the women who in the past year have had the greatest influence on the development of sports.


In a very complex and busy season in 2015 Eric won nine wins, eleven times and reached the finals six times became the best at the end of the qualifying rounds. In addition, she became the first driver in the history of the NHRA, who managed to win three finals in a row only by the reaction at the start.


At the end of the championship lead Enders Stephens was so obvious and indisputable that the competition had no chance and the fans of any shred of doubt about the personality of the future triumph.

And five victories in the last eight stages of the national championship — the most evident proof of this. Currently pilotessa red Chevrolet Camaro leading the number of Wally won during one season NHRA among women, and the total number of trophies in front of her only Angell Semp, which at the beginning of the last decade was not equal in class Pro Stock Motorcycles.


The world-famous company Marvel Comics on this occasion made a series of illustrations devoted to each of the twenty-five women were awarded a place in this prestigious ranking in the North American continent.


«To get to the list of the most outstanding athletes — it's a huge honor for me. Thanks to ESPN for having noted achievements in women's sports. And many thanks to Shirley and Angell Maldauni Sempa, because it is thanks to their merits, girls in today's reality can compete on equal terms with men in the strip. But do not forget that without the people who work with me, my victory would have been impossible. I really believe that they are the best, and my team, I would not have traded for any other. »
Enders Stephens