The Pro Stock bikes are extremely susceptible to wind, as the air can literally push a bike across an entire lane and into either the center line or the wall, based on which lane the driver was running. Still, Andrew Hines drove his new 4-valves per cylinder Harley-Davidson to the number one spot with an impressive 6.889 at 192.55 mph during the second day of the NHRA O'Reilly Springnationals. The Pro Stock bikes are extremely susceptible to wind, as the air can literally push a bike across an entire lane and into either the center line or the wall, based on which lane the driver was running. Still, Andrew Hines drove his new 4-valves per cylinder Harley-Davidson to the number one spot with an impressive 6.889 at 192.55 mph during the second day of the NHRA O'Reilly Springnationals.

“You’re just waiting for the moment when you can get weather like this because when the weather comes the times come,” said Hines. “We took advantage of it in the first session. We probably sacrificed a few hundreds when it went right and left and I had to ride it awhile but we’re ready to go set a national record.”

Hines believes that despite predictions of warmer temperatures that a drop in the winds could lead to a national record.

“(The wind) definitely hinders your performance because you’re cutting through the wind on the side,” Hines explained. “If there was no wind then the class would’ve picked up three or four hundreds probably. If there would’ve been a tailwind out here who knows what you would have seen.”