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The Steve Matthes Show on RacerX

Guest: Jeff Stanton Mar 2008

The Steve Matthes Show on RacerX

Steve Matthes

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

4.7878 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2008

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Matthes takes on the guy he raced at Millville '92 ... head to head ... kind of: team Honda's Jeff "six-time" Stanton! Thanks for all your questions and listen now to see if Steve actually used your query. Listen to the best podcast yet!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is it. This is the RacerX Canada podcast show, and you're listening to it, pal.

0:23.4

My name is Steve.

0:24.8

I'm cold and hungry Mathis, and I'm happy you're listening to this.

0:28.1

And it's all brought to you by Shift Racing Canada.

0:30.3

Not Shift Racing USA.

0:31.9

Shift Racing Canada.

0:33.4

And that provides this show to you and to all you Americans listening, in your face.

0:38.3

Check out shiftgear on the web at shiftracing.ca, not.com.com.com. You got that?

0:44.2

We don't need Brock Heppler. We got Kyle Beaton, your 2010 Lights AMHM.

0:50.1

So shift around in your chair, you shifty bugger you, and listen this week, as I got a good guest this time.

0:55.8

Team Holland, a race consultant, all-around good guy, and six-time AMA champion, Jeff Stenton.

1:02.0

He's pretty much a legend in the sport.

1:03.9

Supercross champion, motocross champion, motocross the nation's champion, last guy to wear high point gear competitively.

1:15.6

I could go on and on about the guy, but there's three things that stand out in my mind when talking about six times. One is the time that I worked for Nick Way and we were in Michigan and went out riding at his property and with Jason Thomas.

1:22.6

Now Nick is obviously pretty fast, but he could barely pull away from Jeff at the end of a 30-minute moto. That was pretty impressive to me. After all, Jeff had been retired for seven years.

1:31.8

At the end of the second moto, J.T. started having break problems on his bike and was stressing out.

1:36.2

He had to call his dad to get him the next day, air him a break. He didn't know if he was

1:40.3

going to be able to race on the weekend. He didn't have any parts. Jeff said, no problem, Jason. He took his entire brake system off and insisted that JT take it for the weekend.

1:49.8

JT. tried to tell him no, but six times said that even if JT gets one to keep his as a backup.

1:54.6

How cool is that? He took it off by himself, too. I mean, that's just incredible for a rider and for an AMA champion. He just was really worried about JT. Another one is his incredible trophy collection he has in his

2:05.4

basement. It's all sealed off with glass and pretty much features every little trophy plaque

2:09.7

magazine article that anything that was written about Jeff, he's got it. It even has a replica

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