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Willy G. Davidson, Harley-Davidson's Vice President
of Styling, was at Gainesville with Bill Davidson,
Director of Product Development. The grandsons
of the company founder were so excited about
the program's progress through the weekend that
they made an impromptu flight to Florida from
Milwaukee to watch final eliminations.
"We'd been following the qualifying on the
Internet," Willy G. Davidson said, "and we said,
'Hey, our plane is gassed up and ready to go.
We'd better get down there. That's a pretty
big deal.'"
Hines rewrote his own track record in his second-round
victory over Josh Helvie with a 7.051-second
elapsed time that was just two-thousandths of
a second slower than Angelle Savoie's national
mark.
Andrew's older brother, Matt Hines, won three
straight NHRA series championships in 1997-99.
Andrew Hines said, "I'm so proud to make everybody
proud."
The class will not run at the upcoming Las
Vegas race, but Hines will take a 22-point lead
into the April 15-18 event at Houston. "We have
118 points," he said. "The only way we could
have more is to have the national record," he
said.
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