Screamin’ Eagle Harley-Davidson Pro Stock rider Andrew Hines couldn’t help but notice the trend in
Andrew Hines became the third Pro Stock Bike rider in 2008 to win from the No. 1 qualifying position. (Roger Richards Photos)
his
class. The two-time world champion from Brownsburg, Indiana realized
after the Houston final round, the key to winning an event was to
qualify No. 1. After all, the formula had worked for Matt Guidera and
Matt Smith, winners of the first two events on the ten race schedule.
Hines took his concerns to his father Byron Hines, one-half of the legendary Vance & Hines legend.
“I pointed out both of them won the event after qualifying No. 1,”
Hines recalled. “I said, ‘dad I want to qualify number one in Atlanta.”
Hines continued, “I swear that is what I told him and he said, ‘Okay make it happen.”
The Hines brothers had better get used to that kind of input because
the elder Hines is beginning to step away more and more from the
operation and putting it into Andrew and Matt Hines’s hands.