flounder Posted August 26, 2009 Report Share Posted August 26, 2009 See hereKevin Schwantz is to ride the Suzuki RGV500, on which he won the 1993 MotoGP World Championship, at this weekend’s Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix.Schwantz will ride the restored bike on demonstration laps of the 2.621-mile road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 2.15pm on Sunday (30th August), 45 minutes before the start of the MotoGP race.Schwantz, from Houston, recorded 25 victories during his illustrious Grand Prix career. It will be the first time he has ridden the bike since he retired after the 1995 season.“We fired it up one weekend, I think, late in the year in 1995,” Schwantz said. “I’m looking forward to it. I’ve sat on it a couple of times. We've got some new Michelin tires for it. I'm not going to try and throw down a qualifying lap, that's for sure, but I'm really looking forward to riding it. Hearing that V4 two-stroke running around out here is going to be special.”A demonstration of a new Moto2 class bike will also take place on Saturday, from 4pm-4.40pm. Moto2, which will use 600cc engines, will replace the 250cc category in 2010.http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2009/Schwantz+to+take+1993+titlewinning+bike+for+spin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yotaman88210 Posted August 26, 2009 Report Share Posted August 26, 2009 AWESOME!! cant wait to hear that!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICEMAN Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 AWESOME!! cant wait to hear that!!DEFINITELY!! 2 stroke V4's FTMFW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisoh Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 Yeah he was telling us about that. He is trying to get one of the other racers to do a couple laps on it as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jermattak Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 thats awesome! i remember watching him that year when i was a kid, from that time on, i wanted a suzuki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleCock Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 wow. very cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisoh Posted August 28, 2009 Report Share Posted August 28, 2009 It was a shame they didn't have the bike at his Shcool. I would havel liked to seen it in person up close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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