Erica Enders is an American drag racing driver who has won four NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Pro Stock Championships. as of now, she also currently competes in the NHRA Pro Modified class. Additionally, she also became the first woman to win the NHRA Pro Stock World Championship in 2014 winning six races a year.
Also, she is the older sister of former dragster Courtney Enders. The life story of the two brothers attracted the filmmakers of the Disney Channel Original Movie and led to a movie called Right on Track in 2003. In addition, their role was played by Beverley Mitchell while her sister’s by Brie Larson. Scroll to learn more about her and then continue scrolling from her.
Subtitle: Drag racing driver, Erica Enders.
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Erica Enders: biography, family, career
The drag racing driver was born on October 8, 1983 as Erica Lee Enders. She along with her younger sister Courtney Enders she was born and raised in Houston, Texas, United States of America. Greg Enders and Janet Lee Enders. Enders is the older sister of Courtney Enders, who was a junior dragster driver; both attended Cypress Springs High School.
She was interested in motor racing from a young age and started racing in 1992 at the age of 8. Additionally, the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum has her original Enders Racing Junior Dragster on display. Also, she had her eight years of junior drag competition in which she had 37 career wins for her. In 1995, she was named Junior Dragster Driver of the Year.
At the age of 16, in 2000, she entered her first national event final in Houston to become the youngest NHRA national event finalist. At the same time, she was named the NHRA Rookie Athlete of the Year. She became the first woman to qualify No. 1 in Pro Stock in 2006. Since then, she has won multiple racing championships. She also began driving a twin-turbo 2019 Camaro for Elite Motorsports in Pro Modified in 2018. Enders nearly avoided serious injury in 2019 when her Chevrolet Camaro caught fire at the end of a qualifying lap of the NHRA Pro Mod at Ohio .
Erica Enders: personal life and husband
Moving on to her private life, she is a happily married woman. She has married her longtime boyfriend-turned-husband Richie Stevens, Jr. Looking briefly at her husband, he is also a drag racer who hails from New Orleans and won his first ADRL race at Virginia Motorsports Park. This has helped him become the first driver to win a Pro Stock race in the NHRA, ADRL and International Hot Rod Association.
Furthermore, they had dated over three years before getting married on December 7, 2012. Also, her fiancé at the time had proposed to Erica after winning her first national event at Pro Stock. After their marriage, Richie and Enders honeymooned in Hana on the island of Maui in Hawaii. However, the drag racer has kept most of her private affairs away from the media. It is unclear whether or not she has welcomed a child from her married life with Stevens.
Caption: Erica Enders with her husband Richie Stevens Jr.
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Erica Enders: Net Worth and Social Media Profiles
She has an estimated net worth of around $2 million from her career as a race car driver. In addition, she also amassed a profitable amount from the sale of her own line of racing products. Furthermore, she has also won multiple championships in various events which also helped her win prize money.
She is very active on different social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. On Instagram she has an account @ericaendersracing with 79.6k followers. She has verified Facebook account under her name with more than 181k followers. It seems that she is not active on Twitter.
