NHRA PRO STOCK SERIES
DRAG RACING
BY KEVIN MCKENNA
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MATT POLITO
F
our races into the 2014 sea-
son and Screamin' Eagle
Harley-Davidson team-
mates Andrew Hines and Eddie
Krawiec are once again running
roughshod over the NHRA Pro
Stock Motorcycle class. After
spending much of the 2013 sea-
son working to refine the two-
valve engine combination man-
dated by NHRA, the dynamic duo
have now combined to win three
of the first four rounds this year.
At the most recent round in Eng-
lishtown, New Jersey, Hines won
the final round, narrowly edging
Krawiec by a few thousandths of
a second, 6.828 to 6.837. It was
Hines' 34
th
career NHRA win and
his second this season.
"We are back! I think we put
an exclamation point on that this
weekend," Hines said. "We've
been digging the last year and a
half to get back to where we were
with our old engines. I've always
said that racing season gets in
the way of our R&D program and
this winter we had a chance to
get a lot of work done and we're
starting to reap the benefits of
that. We spent a lot of late nights
in our shop to make our V-Rods
fast again."
The Harley V-Rods were domi-
nant from the start of qualifying
when teams were greeted with
some of the best racing condi-
tions they'd seen in years. NHRA's
ROUND 4/JUNE 1, 2014
OLD BRIDGE TOWNSHIP RACEWAY PARK/ENGLISHTOWN, NEW JERSEY
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All Harley, All The Time
HINES DEFEATS KRAWIEC IN ANOTHER ALL-HARLEY FINAL ROUND