INTERVIEW
2014 NHRA PRO STOCK MOTORCYCLE WORLD CHAMPION ANDREW HINES
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Sampey, and the late John Myers. The way Hines
saw it, the only way he was ever going to catch five-
time champion Dave Schultz was to win a fourth title
and then go to work on another one.
Hines also carried extra motivation into the 2014
season after a disastrous 2013 season where he
failed to finish in the top ten for the first time in
his career. That miscue was the result of an NHRA
rules revision that forced the Vance & Hines team
to abandon their innovative four-valve V-Rod en-
gine program and return to a conventional two-
valve combination. Although Hines was able to
"I KNEW IF I STUMBLED
DURING THE COUNTDOWN
HE'D [KRAWIEC] JUST GET
ON A ROLL AND RUN AWAY
WITH IT. I KNOW HOW MANY
NUMBER ONE SEEDS WIN
CHAMPIONSHIPS."
"For Hines, winning a fourth title was particularly
important because it allowed him to separate himself
from a pack of three-time champions that includes
his older brother, Matt, teammate Krawiec, Angelle
