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Angelle Sampey’s recent win at the NHRA Summernationals in Englishtown brought the three-time world champ's tally to 42, inching her closer to leaders Dave Schultz and Andrew Hines. Who else ranks among the top five in Pro Stock Motorcycle wins? This week, we look at the leaders in victories in the two-wheel class.

No. 1: Dave Schultz

Before his untimely death in 2001 after a battle with cancer, the six-time world champion racked up 45 wins during his legendary career. Schultz hoisted his first Wally at the 1986 season finale in Pomona, where he defeated fellow two-wheel legend Terry Vance in the final. Schultz’s 45th and final win came just months before his passing when he scored an emotional and inspiring win against Geno Scali at the 2000 fall Houston race.

No. 2: Andrew Hines

When Hines began his Pro Stock Motorcycle career in Denver in 2002, he was known as Matt’s brother, but the younger Hines has certainly stepped out of his championship-winning brother’s shadows and established himself as one of the class greats (and continues to build on that). Beginning at the 2004 Gainesville event, where he bested then-teammate GT Tonglet, Hines has racked up 43 victories, the most recent coming at this year’s four-wide event. A five-time world champion, Hines is within two wins of tying Schultz, and there is a high probability we could see him become the No. 1 ranked driver before this season ends.

No. 3: Angelle Sampey

Not only do her 42 wins make Sampey the winningest female racer in NHRA history, but the tally also places her third on the Pro Stock Motorcycle wins list. Sampey broke through for her first victory in Reading in 1996, defeating Schultz in the final, and she steadily racked up race wins, not to mention three world championships, until she stepped away from racing following the 2008 season. Sampey returned to competition in late 2014, and in Englishtown, she made her return to the winner’s circle, outlasting Jerry Savoie for the Wally.

No. 4: Eddie Krawiec

Krawiec’s first win took a bit of time, coming in Atlanta in 2009 and after he had secured his first world championship, but since that first victory, the floodgates have opened up. Krawiec has steadily won races each year since that breakout first win, and that is particularly true this year. In the first five events of 2016, Krawiec has been the final racer standing three times, including at the most recent event in Norwalk.

No. 5: John Myers

Much like class leader and on-track rival Schultz, there’s no telling how many more races Myers would have won because his career was cut short by a highway accident that claimed his life in 1998. Until that tragic accident, Myers was one of Pro Stock Motorcycle’s leaders, winning 33 times. Myers’ first win was a big one, coming in Indy in 1989, where he bested “Pizza John” Mafaro. Myers’ final victory also came in Indy, in 1997 against Matt Hines.