CN
III ARCHIVES
BY LARRY LAWRENCE
A
lthough it's poor journalis-
tic etiquette, sometimes it
would just be easier if I let an Ar-
chives subject tell his own story
simply because it is so good
that setting up the quotes with
time-and-place narratives wastes
valuable space in this column.
That was pretty much the case
when I managed to steal 15 min-
utes with 1993 World Road Rac-
ing Champion Kevin Schwantz
at Road America during the AMA
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KEVIN SCHWANTZ: THE GUY
WHO GOT UNDER RAINEY'S
just rehashing the story of the
Match Races, Schwantz, now
40, opened up about a man who
was his nemesis, his polar oppo-
site, a guy who hated him with a
passion—and vice versa. Through
it all, they defined each other's
careers on the way to becoming
friends. The ball is in Schwantz's
court from here onward:
"What happened was that in
'86 I went over to England for the
Match Races, but Wayne didn't
Superbike Championship round
to get the lowdown on his rela-
tionship with fellow World Cham-
pion Wayne Rainey. The topic of
discussion was supposed to be
their legendary duel at the Trans-
atlantic Match Races in England
in 1988.
But, as Rob Reiner's charac-
ter, Marty DiBergi, states in the
spoof rockumentary comedy This
Is Spinal Tap, "I got that, and
much, much more." More than
