Erica Lee Enders-Stevens (born October 8, 1983 in Houston, Texas) is an American racer, NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Pro Stock.
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Careers
In 1993, Enders-Stevens won the 4th Division Jr. Championship. Dragster in grades 8 to 9 years, and in 1995 he was given the title of Junior Dragster Driver of the Year. In his eight years of junior dragster competition, he has 37 career victories.
In 2000, at the age of 16, he advanced to the final of his first national event (Houston) to become NHRA's youngest national event finalist. He was named NHRA Sportsman Rookie of the Year.
In 2004, Enders-Stevens became the 35th woman in NHRA history to win a national event, in the Super Gas class in Houston. In 2005, she became the first woman to compete in the NHRA Pro Stock category since 1993, the first woman in NHRA's eligible history at the top of the Pro Stock field, and the first woman to reach the final round at Pro Stock (in Chicago). Enders-Stevens won more wins in 2005 than all other women in NHRA Pro Stock's combined history, and became a finalist for the Road to the Future award for rookie top this season.
In 2006, Enders-Stevens became the first woman to escape No. 1 on Pro Stock (at Heartland Park, Topeka, Kansas), and record another runner-up finish at Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla.
After returning to Cagnazzi Racing in 2011, he broke the national speed record at Pro Stock at 213.57 mph (343.71 km/h) in the Gainesville round, and defeated the 2004 Sprinter Cup NASCAR champion Kurt Busch in Round One who met.
On July 2, 2012, Enders-Stevens became the first woman to win at NHRA Pro Stock, beating four-time champion Greg Anderson in the final at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Illinois. His winning time was 6.627 seconds to run 1,320 feet.
In 2012, Enders-Stevens finished his fourth best career on points in the Countdown to Championship at NHRA Pro Stock and followed up with a sixth finish in 2013.
It was announced after the 2013 season that Enders-Stevens will leave Cagnazzi Racing and join Elite Motorsports for 2014 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, driving a new Camaro team.
He currently holds both sides of NHRA National Notes for Pro Shares, 6.464 seconds and 215.55 mph (346.89 km/h), set in Englishtown, NJ in 2014.
In 2014, Enders-Stevens became the first woman to win the NHRA Pro Stock World Championship, winning six races for the year (the NHRA event victory requires four consecutive wins over competitors drawn from the fastest sixteen cars on the show), including Final Auto Club NHRA end of season for the title.
By 2015, Enders-Stevens broke 2 records for female NHRA drivers. At Charlotte's zMax Dragway in September, he scored his 19th career victory, surpassing the record previously held by Shirley Muldowney in the Top Fuel for the NHRA national event that was most won by a female racer. At Texas Motorplex in October, Enders-Stevens claimed his eighth win of the year, breaking the record of Pro Stock Motorcycle driver Angelle Sampey in seven seasons in 2001.
Enders-Stevens won the NHRA Pro Stock World Championship for the second year in a row in 2015.
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Personal life
Enders-Stevens is the older sister of Courtney Enders, who is the driver of a junior racing car; they both went to Cypress Springs High School. After winning his first national event on Pro Stock, his girlfriend Richie Stevens, Jr. (also a drag racer) suggested. Both were married on December 7, 2012.
Movies
In 2003, Enders-Stevens and his sister had their life story transformed into a Disney Original Movie, Right on Track . Erica is described by Beverley Mitchell, while Courtney is described by Brie Larson.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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