Shouldn't  a multi-time world champion would know what a world record run feels like?

Andrew Hines pleads guilty to that insensitivity as he rode his way to a new elapsed time world record with a 6.860 second pass at 192.14 mph during the final session of qualifying for the Pro Bikes at the NHRA Midwest Nationals in St. Louis.

The monumental run also represents his third No. 1 of the season and 25th of his career.

Shouldn't  a multi-time world champion would know what a world record run feels like?

Andrew Hines pleads guilty to that insensitivity as he rode his way to a new elapsed time world record with a 6.860 second pass at 192.14 mph during the final session of qualifying for the Pro Bikes at the NHRA Midwest Nationals in St. Louis.

The monumental run also represents his third No. 1 of the season and 25th of his career.

“It really didn’t feel like a national record,” Hines said. “It was really good going through the eighth-mile and I guess it had enough momentum that it just sailed on through there. In the shutdown area you can usually tell but I couldn’t.”

Hines said with the new four-valves per cylinder engine combination the Screamin’ Eagle Harley-Davidson runs stronger than ever from the 60-foot to 330-foot incremental timers.

He credits older brother Matt Hines, a former world champion and now crew chief for the team for the run.

“This is just a tribute to what my brother has been doing to the chassis,” Hines said. “These are new bikes that we are running this year. We’ve been slowly lowering the wheelie bar. We lowered it before we came here and we lowered it before we made the last run.”

The team continues to refine their combination and the engines they ran today are the same two they started the season with. Two weekends ago, Hines’ teammate Eddie Krawiec won the NHRA Southern Nationals. They have identical engines.

“This is the same stuff we ran in Atlanta, it’s just getting out to the eighth-mile quicker,” Hines said. “The track is prepped perfect for us and we couldn’t be happier.

“The work our team has done in the past four months has made me feel really good.”  

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