Screamin’ Eagle / Vance & Hines rider Andrew Hines is a three-time NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle World Champion. He is the son of Vance & Hines Motorsports co-founder Byron Hines, whose teams have earned 11 national drag racing championships. Andrew is also the younger brother of another three-time Pro Stock Motorcycle champion, Matt Hines. Clearly, winning runs in the family.

Andrew Hines made his professional drag racing debut with the Screamin’ Eagle / Vance & Hines team in 2002 at Bandimere Speedway near Denver. In 2004, at age 21, he became the youngest world champion in NHRA history as he rode the Screamin’ Eagle / Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson V-Rod to the Pro Stock Motorcycle title. In 2005 Hines opened the season at Gainesville with a 6.991-seocnd run to become the first Pro Stock Motorcycle to make a pass under seven seconds. Hines won the NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle championship again in 2005 and 2006. In 2007 Hines finished second in NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle points. Last season Hines won two events, was the No. 2 qualifier in the Countdown to One playoffs and finished the season points race in fourth place.

Andrew Hines works in the Screamin’ Eagle / Vance & Hines race shop and is an active participant in the assembly and testing of the team’s Harley-Davidson V-Rod Pro Stock motorcycles. Hines has spent the off-season helping to build the team’s new four-valve V-Twin and the motorcycles that engine will propel down the track.

“The great thing about a new season is that we all start even again,” said Hines. “Last season we threw some good chances away, and that’s been hard to deal with. I’d like to see us bounce back and win four or five races and bring home another championship for Harley-Davidson.”

2009 PSM: Screamin' Eagle/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson V-Rod
Team owners: Terry Vance & Byron Hines
2008 wins/final rounds: 2/3
First NHRA start: Denver 2002
Career NHRA wins/final rounds: 15/27
Career-best elapsed time: 6.875 seconds (Madison 2008)
Career-best speed: 197.45 mph (Gainesville 2005)

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
Three-time NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle championship (2004-'06)
Three-time Ringers Gloves Pro Bike Battle Champion (2004, 2006-‘07)
2008: Went to the final round at three of the first four races with wins in Atlanta and St. Louis; Led the points from Race 3 through Race 10; Matched his second-best round-win total (31); Competed in his 100th career race.
2007: Earned appearance in inaugural Countdown to 4 and Countdown to 1; Won a career best five of seven final round appearances.
2006: Earned his third consecutive world championship title; Won three of five final round appearances.
2005: Earned second consecutive world championship title; Became first rider to run sub six seconds; Set national records for elapsed time (6.968 seconds) and speed (197.45 mph); Won two of five final round appearances; Topped the qualifying fields at nine of 15 events.
2004: Won first career NHRA world championship and first for Harley-Davidson; recorded category E.T. record; led the point standings for the entire season; had a category-best eight No. 1 qualifying positions; won three of four final-round appearances.
2003: Was the runner-up at Sonoma, the first final-round appearance of his career.
2002: Made professional debut at Denver. Finalist for the Auto Club Road to the Future award honoring the sport’s Rookie of the Year