Since her debut in 1996, she has earned an all-time class record 45 top-qualifier awards[1] and 46 event victories, the 2nd most wins for any female in both NHRA competition and professional motor sports as a whole.
On June 23, 2007 at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey, she scored her 42nd career pole position and more importantly set the national Pro Stock Motorcycle elapsed time record with a 6.871 second run.
[3] Sampey also holds the active record of 182 consecutive races without a Did not qualify,[4] dating back to her professional debut.
[7] Along with Erica Enders, Shirley Muldowney, Brittany Force, and Christina Nielsen, Sampey is one of a very few women to have won a major motorsports championship title; she, Enders and Muldowney are the only female drag racers to have scored more than ten NHRA event wins, as well as the only three women in the sport to win more than one championship in their respective divisions, Muldowney with three in Top Fuel, Enders with five in Pro Stock and Sampey with three in Pro Stock Motorcycle.
In August 2023, she made the transition into Top Alcohol Dragster, joining fellow former Pro Stock Motorcycle rider Antron Brown on his AB Motorsports Accelerate program.