Without them, my sponsors, and my family, I would have never been in this position to begin with.RACER is a premium motorsports publication known for its beautiful images and timeless stories. I couldn't be more blessed that I got the opportunity to drive for Morgan Lucas Racing and work with such a great group of guys. “It really just puts the cherry on top of an already amazing rookie season. “I am ecstatic that I won the 2014 Racer Rookie of the Year award,” Crampton said. “The kid from Adelaide, Australia, has followed the wheel tracks of stars like Medlen, Dunn, Hight, and Neff, who went from respected crewmen to the cockpit of a 300-mph-plus car and became winners.”Ĭrampton joins a distinguished list of past winners of the award, including the Force sisters, Hamilton, Joey Logano, James Hinchcliffe, and Ryan Dungey. “Richie Crampton as our Rookie of the Year is a great feel-good story,” Malsher said. He also was named NHRA’s Auto Club Road to the Future Award winner. If I did it, so can you! Do your best, and let God do the rest.”Ĭrampton is the third NHRA driver to earn Racer’s Rookie of the Year award, following Funny Car driver Courtney Force in 2012 and Top Fuel driver Brittany Force in 2013.Ĭrampton raced to two victories in 2014, at the Toyota NHRA Summernationals in New Jersey and the prestigious Chevrolet Performance U.S. To young aspiring people out there struggling and being told you can't reach your dreams, please remember me, a regular 8-year-old kid with big dreams who never quit trying and believing. What an honor, and I am so humbled and thankful to represent drag racing and all the women racers out there. We were fast all year, thanks to our tremendous horsepower from Jake Hairston and Nick Ferri, and we were fortunate to win six races. I'm so thankful for my team owner, Richard Freeman, my crew chiefs, Rick and Rickie Jones, and everyone at Elite for making 2014 so special. “I have always said my fans are the best, and they proved it one more time. “I am truly honored to receive this award, and I have to thank my team and all my fans for voting,” Enders-Stevens said. She also set both ends of the Pro Stock national record with an elapsed time of 6.464 seconds and a speed of 215.55 mph last season in Englishtown. She also became the first female winner of the K&N Horsepower Challenge, an NHRA Pro Stock specialty race in Las Vegas. And this time, it’s through people power rather than horsepower.”Įnders-Stevens' team raced to six victories and one runner-up finish. Just like in NHRA Pro Stock, where she had to beat a driver as tough as double-champ Jason Line, she’s beaten the best of the best to earn this award. But in winning the overall award, she also defeated NASCAR champ Kevin Harvick, Formula 1 champ Lewis Hamilton, and Ind圜ar champ Will Power. “To do that for the Drag Racer of the Year award was one thing. 16-Time Champ in the voting this year,” Malsher said. “The Racer of the Year award has been won by a drag racer only twice before-both times John Force-and Mrs. Enders-Stevens clinched her first championship when she defeated rival Jason Line, her nearest competitor in the points, in a winner-take-all final round at the season-ending event in Pomona. The 2014 season was a breakthrough one for veteran Enders-Stevens, who was in her first season at the controls of her 200-mph Elite Motorsports Chevy Camaro. “Erica Enders-Stevens’ championship victory in Pro Stock grabbed headlines for NHRA far beyond drag racing, and her victory in Racer of the Year voting really ticked the boxes for all those of us who love that category for its sexy cars,” said David Malsher, Racer’s editor. Funny Car series runner-up John Force received the second-most votes in the Drag Racer of the Year voting at 14.6 percent.Įnders-Stevens is the second NHRA driver to ever be named Racer of the Year. She earned 66 percent of the fan vote to win the highly competitive Drag Racer of the Year title. The magazine also announced that NHRA Top Fuel driver Richie Crampton was voted Rookie of the Year by its readers.Įnders-Stevens claimed nearly half of the votes (48.9 percent) from fans for the Racer of the Year title, compared with 6.2 percent for NASCAR’s Kevin Harvick and 5.4 percent for F1’s Lewis Hamilton. This is the first time that either award has been presented to a female racer. Erica Enders-Stevens, 2014 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Pro Stock world champion, has been named Racer of the Year and Drag Racer of the Year by the readers of Racer magazine.
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