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New Zealand Superbike Champion
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Started racing in 1986 and won his first championship in 1988 in the NZ 250 Production class. He then raced at Bathurst where he finished 2nd in the 1988 Arai 500 km Superbike race. In 1988, Stroud raced in the US Endurance series and the Suzuka 8 Hours. For the next ten years he competed internationally, riding for various Superbike and Grand Prix teams. Stroud first rode the New Zealand-built Britten V1000 at Daytona in 1992 where the bike stopped with a couple of laps remaining. However, he won both Daytona races in 1994 on the Britten bike while setting the fastest top speed recorded by any motorcycle at Daytona (189 mph or 305 km/h). One of the few people to have had the privilege of racing one of John Britten's superbikes, Stroud won the Battle-of-the-Twins at Daytona on Britten superbikes in 1994, 1996, 1997 and 1998.[3] In 1995, Stroud won the inaugural World B.E.A.R.S Series (British European American Racing Series, now part of AHMRA) on a Britten bike, three weeks before his friend, John Britten, died. Also in 1995 and on a Britten, Stroud won the European Pro-Twins at Assen. Stroud has competed in 41 World Superbike races, 20 FIM 500 GP races, 4 Suzuka 8 Hours races, 1 Isle of Man race and 3 24hours World endurance races. He has also won 9 New Zealand superbike national championships. He accomplished this in 1995 and 1998 (riding a Britten V1000) and, riding a Suzuki GSX-R1000, in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006. In 2010 he became the New Zealand superbike national champion for the seventh time.[4] During the past decade he has ridden a Suzuki superbike, currently the GSXR1000K9.[5][6] On 19 December 2010 Andrew Stroud had a special day when he won both legs of the F1 Superbike class in round two of the Suzuki International Tri-Series at Manfeild. To make his day even better, it started with the birth of his and his wife Karyn's eighth child, Lucia Elizabeth Stroud.[7] In 2011 Stroud again became national champion.
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