Along with Shirley Muldowney, Sampey is one of a very few women to have won a major motorsports championship title; she and Muldowney are the only female drag racers to have scored more than ten NHRA event wins, as well as the only two women in the sport to win more than one championship in their respective divisions, Muldowney with three in Top Fuel, and Sampey with three in Pro Stock Motorcycle.
Richard Petty, Shirley Muldowney, Don Prudhomme, Bunny Burkett are among some of the great drag racers who raced on the now defunct speedway.
Motion Raceway hosted both NHRA and IHRA National Events, and drew nationally known names such as Don Garlits and Shirley Muldowney.
Jennifer Finch, of the rock band L7, wrote and released a song called "Shirley" on L7's 1994 studio album Hungry for Stink.
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