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Andrew Stroud (born 31 December 1967)) is a New Zealand motorcycle racer
Personal
Stroud was born in Auckland. He was educated at St Peter's College. His height is 185cm and his weight is 74kg.
Career highlights
Stroud 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 500km Superbike race.
In 1988, Stroud raced in the US Endurance series and the Suzuka 8hr. 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 305km/h).
Stroud won the 1995 World B.E.A.R.S Series on a Britten, three weeks before his friend, John Britten died.
Stroud has competed in 41 World Superbike races, 20 FIM 500 GP's, 4 Suzuka 8hrs, 1 x I.O.M and 3 24hrs World endurance races.
He has also won 7 New Zealand superbike national championships. He accomplished this in 1995 and 1998 (riding a Britten V1000) and, riding a Suzuki GSXR1000, in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2006. In 2010 he is the current New Zealand champion. During the past decade he has ridden a Suzuki superbike, currently the GSXR1000K9.