PREVIEW
DRAG RACING
P74
NHRA PRO STOCK MOTORCYCLE PREVIEW
FREE FOR ALL
BY KEVIN MCKENNA
PHOTOGRAPHY BT MAT POLITO
A
fter nearly a decade of near
domination by the Screamin��� Eagle Vance & Hines
Harley V-Rods, the NHRA Pro
Stock Motorcycle Championship
is once again on the open market. Following a season in which
Harley-Davidson teammates Ed-
die Krawiec and Andrew Hines
combined to win 15 of 16 events
and finished first and second, respectively, in the point standings,
the hammer came down this winter. In a stunning announcement,
NHRA rules makers not only
took away the four-valve cylinder
heads that had helped to make
the Vance & Hines V-Rods so
dominant, but they also threw in
a bonus clause that required that
all V-twin entries have a standardized pushrod length of no less
than eight-inches. That essentially sent the V&H squad back to the
drawing board as they could not
even revive the two-valve engine
program they last ran in 2008.
���We had to start from scratch
on our engine program and that
has made for a long winter,��� said