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Schwantz reunites with 1993 RGV500
The garrulous 48-year-old American – about to make a racing comeback in the Suzuka 8 Hour – took to the saddle of his 500 GP title-winning Suzuki in GoodwoodAmerican Kevin Schwantz was reunited with his 1993 world 500 GP title-winning Suzuki RGV500 at the prestigious Goodwood Festival of Speed in England on July 14.
Schwantz took to the saddle of his iconic #34 Lucky Strike Suzuki along with past and present stars of motorcycle and motor racing at the three-day event that attracted an attendance upwards of 150,000.
Schwantz also met-up with Suzuki's long-standing GP team manager Garry Taylor before he jets-off to Japan at the end of the month to ride in the 2013 Suzuka 8 Hour world endurance race alongside Yukio Kagayama and Noriyuki Haga aboard a GSX-R1000.
Other highlights of the festival included:
- Kenny Roberts (1978-1980 world champion) riding the last-ever two-stroke to score a pole position, the Proton KR3, run by Robert’s team, and his 1980 championship winner;
- Freddie Spencer (1983 and 1985 world champion) on his 1985 world championship-winning Honda NSR500;
- The mythical Britten V1000 with TT legend and New Zealander, Bruce Anstey;
- The world’s only running Foggy Petronas FP1 ridden by original world superbike rider James Haydon;
- Barry Sheene’s first ever GP winner, 1975 Suzuki XR14 RG500;
- The Honda RC149, the first-ever five-cylinder race bike, from the Honda Collection in Japan, ridden by world champion Ralph Bryans; and
- The Festival of Speed also displayed two major British attempts at the motorcycle land speed record: ‘The 52 Express’ and ‘Jet Reaction’– a jet-thrust-powered LSR.
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