NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle Winner Steve Johnson Rankles Female Racers

Steve Johnson, the Pro Stock Bike winner at zMAX Dragway in Sunday’s Circle K NHRA Four-Huge Nationals at Concord, N.C., reported before in the 7 days that in his course, “our rivalries are true.”

They turned further in the past couple of times. He proudly stated that considering that his victory a week back at Houston, “I’ve been stirring up some crap” in on the net interviews. And he ongoing through pre-race ceremonies Sunday, receiving himself in some extra difficulty with his woman competition even in advance of racing started.

1st, he annoyed Angie Smith, whose husband Johnson normally takes each prospect to worsen. Johnson however is rankled by five-time winner Matt Smith’s categorization past 12 months of some racers as “professionals” and some as “hobbyists.” Johnson said in a mid-7 days job interview that Matt Smith “doesn’t do anything” to win, that his good results arrives from his crew. On top of that, Johnson stated he’s glad Matt Smith voices his viewpoints, even nevertheless “they could be always wrong—and Angie sleeps with him at night. But I got the Houston trophy!”

Angie Smith told him, “You should not talk smack about the women, simply because it is often about equal option. So you know what? We’re likely to load you up.”

Then, in just seconds, Johnson was insulting 3-time winner Angelle Sampey and her bling-studded driving leathers: “We do the job genuinely, genuinely hard. Angelle even works actually, really tough. She puts that glitter all about her leathers all day prolonged.” That arrived right after he carried on a mock dialogue concerning Sampey and her Vance & Hines crew on that same Web application: “‘You want to do the cam timing?’ ‘No, I don’t assume so.’ ‘How about putting the rings on the pistons?’ ‘No, I really do not think I can do that. Oh! Oh! I know! I can set much more glitter on my leathers. I know I can do that.’”

Sampey stated Sunday, “I do have to say to large crybaby Steve Johnson he requirements to get his things straight. I do not have glitter on my leathers. I have Swarovski crystals, and they are very high-priced. And it takes a lot of time to do that. So I work genuinely challenging. He needs to be a girl like me, so I’m going to deliver him some crystals to the following race. We’ll see if it’ll help him.”

Tale continues

Johnson did say, “In all sincerity, that is why our sport is so great: the ladies, the fellas, any ethnicity, any one can gain out right here. And that is what America’s about, correct? – chance.”

John Pressure, the eventual Humorous Car winner Sunday, said (in an non-derogatory way) in his very first-round quad, “I’ve acquired to race that girl—(Alexis) De Joria. Going to be enjoyable. Women are using above this sport! What are we likely to do?”

Get pleasure from it, probably?