Career
She drives a Toyota Camry funny car. Alexis began her NHRA career in 2005, initially competing in the Super Gas category before moving into a rear engine Super Comp dragster. DeJoria spent the next two years racing along the West coast in to a Top Alcohol Funny Carolina (TAFC).
In 2009, Alexis built her own racing team, Stealth Motorsports.
She co-owned and operated the team for three years, leaving in 2011 to join Kalitta Motorsports as their fourth member and second Funny Carolina driver. This move coincided with her transition to racing a nitro powered Funny Carolina at the 2011 Texas Fall Nationals.
In 2012, Alexis raced her first final-round appearance at Bristol. That year she also set both a career best for time with a run of 4.032 and speed of 319.07 at Reading.
During the 2013 season, Alexis had 4 semi-final finishes.
In 2014, Alexis became the first woman ever to make a sub-four second run, with a 3.997-second ET In Pomona, California during the NHRA Winternationals. That May, she broke a Funny Carolina track record at Atlanta Dragway (4012-second ET) while earning her the Number One qualifier position. That summer, she went on to break Brainerd International Raceway’s Funny Carolina ET record when she ran a 4.010-second pass and then reset her own record with a 3.998-second run, the first sub-four second Funny Carolina run recorded at BIR. June 7, 2015 advanced to the finals in Nitro Funny Carolina in the Summernationals at Englishtown New Jersey.
Alexis, along with her mother Jamie Briggs, joined Sallie Latimer"s efforts to raise money to repair the Earles Court water tower.