Kevin Schwantz | A life spent sideways
Gas It Out
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4.9 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
He was cool before motorcycle racing knew how to market cool. Sending it way before Full Send became a thing.
In this special episode of Gas It Out, Gavin Emmett, Neil Hodgson and Sylvain Guintoli sit down with 1993 500cc World Champion Kevin Schwantz at his Texas ranch for a funny, honest and often fascinating deep dive into one of the most captivating careers the sport has ever seen. Brief but brilliant.
From motocross beginnings to Grand Prix glory, Schwantz reflects on the fearless style, fierce rivalries and split-second decisions that made him a legend. He talks Rainey, Roberts, Doohan, Rossi and Marquez, the brutality of the 500s, the weight of winning a world title, and the moment he knew it was finally time to walk away.
There are brilliant stories, proper racing nuggets, and a real sense of what made Schwantz such a unique rider - flamboyant, all-action, and always absolutely committed.
A life spent sideways, and not much regret about any of it.
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| 0:00.0 | He was the one shield cracked, friggin' sitting on the grid. And I'd, hey, ready to go? Come on, we're going racing today. It's going to be fun, isn't it? I was spinning one direction. He clipped me and spun me back the other one. I kind of think the same of him today as I did back then. I sat there and watched him and listened to him. He was like really is an asshole in you know that certain death out there son |
| 0:25.6 | hello and welcome back to another episode of Gassett Out |
| 0:41.4 | and it is a very special episode. |
| 0:43.6 | I am joined as always by Sylvan Ginsoli and Neil Hodgson. |
| 0:48.2 | And boys, when we were over at the US Grand Prix in Austin in Texas. |
| 0:55.1 | We had a very lucky Wednesday morning, didn't we? |
| 0:58.7 | As we drove out about an hour away from the city of Austin to a ranch where the Schwanse, |
| 1:06.4 | well, dynasty as was born effectively. |
| 1:10.7 | And yeah, we got to spend some time in the company of the man |
| 1:14.3 | actually on my uh you might be able to see it |
| 1:17.8 | 1993 500 C2c world champion Kevin Schwantz and we've got an interview for you it's it's a long |
| 1:26.0 | one isn't it chaps but it's one of those, it's like |
| 1:29.2 | we've almost done a little bit of a biography, really, haven't we, with some really interesting |
| 1:33.4 | racing nuggets in for the ride. What do you reckon? Yeah, I've got to say, I didn't think it was |
| 1:39.0 | long. It went really quickly. It was funny during it. I was sat there thinking, wow, this is going to be |
| 1:46.8 | really interesting to listen to, obviously, as I was listening to him go on. So you know what I'm like. |
| 1:52.0 | I was, I was his number one fan. When I started racing, Kevin was the man. He was part of the |
| 1:56.0 | reason I got into racing, really. In the sort of late 80s, when I was a motocross rider, |
| 2:01.3 | I used to watch the 500-CC races and want to be Kevin Schwantz, |
| 2:05.5 | the way he rode. |
| 2:06.9 | Everything about him was cool. |
| 2:08.3 | The Pepsi Suzuki, that turned into the Lucky Strikes Suzuki, |
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