Guest: Chris Wheeler Dec 16

The Steve Matthes Show on RacerX

Steve Matthes

Supercross, 051142, Pulpmx, Sports & Recreation, Professional, Motocross, Steve Matthes, Racerx

4.7 • 878 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2016

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Suzuki's Motocross Manager Chris Wheeler comes on to talk about his promotion at Suzuki, lining up the 2016 teams, getting JGR on-board, his own racing career and more.

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0:29.1	The original Moto Podcast, featuring legends of the past, stars of today, season previews and race reviews, introspection, opinion,
0:41.0	facts, and laughs.
0:42.9	Here's your host, Steve Mathis.
0:51.0	Welcome everybody to the motorcycle superstore.com, rac racerx podcast with Chris Wheeler from Suzuki.
0:57.9	He's a motocross manager there at Suzuki.
1:00.2	He started, I want to say like early mid-last year.
1:03.7	He got promoted from the R&E department into being the big boss at Suzuki.
1:08.8	Holy crap, he's got a lot of work ahead of him.
1:12.4	You know, he's got to rebuild the amateur program he's got to get a 250F program going he's got to work on the production
1:17.6	two to the f a little bit he's got a 2018 uh new rmz 450 coming that he doesn't talk about in
1:24.0	this podcast because he can't but that's coming and then he had y Yoshmir Suzuki fold up on him and he had to find some money for RCH.
1:32.2	And somehow he pulled this JGR deal out of his ass and he and everyone involved in that
1:38.3	deserves some props for getting those guys on Suzuki.
1:42.2	So yeah, wheels. Very busy. He went from a life of off-road
1:47.1	manager slash R&D guy to being thrown into the fire. I've known him for a long time. I met him
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