Urgent:Kelvin Schwantz Rushed to the hospital in a critical condition Kevin Schwantz, the 500cc GP World Champion and Grand Marshal of tomorrow's Al Lamb's Dallas Honda Texas Half-Mile, is probably well-known to the typical motorcycle aficionado. Russ Brown Motorcycle Attorneys is the presenter. They are likely aware that he rose to prominence in the Texas club racing scene in 1984 after landing a factory ride with Yoshimura Suzuki. He and his friend and rival Wayne Rainey went on to dominate a large portion of the American Superbike scene in the middle and late 1980s. They are likely aware that he started participating in Grand Prix races on Suzuki two- Many people are unaware that Schwantz has a fair amount of flat track experience in his motorcycling career. This is largely due to his uncle Daryl Hurst, who competed as a professional flat tracker on the Grand National circuit and ran national number 34, which would later become Schwantz's number, for the majority of the 1970s. Kevin was coached in trials, motocross, and then dirt track racing by Hurst, who owned Hurst Yamaha and Marine, a Yamaha dealership, together with his sister Shirley and Kevin's father, Jim Schwantz, his brother-in-law. Paraphrase Schwantz recalls that every Christmas, "I would be hopping up and down begging, 'I want to go...let us put some dirt track tires on my bikes,' which were YZ80s and YZ125 Yamahas back then, as Uncle Daryl started getting ready for the Houston Astrodome." On the day following the National, I would participate in amateur competitions, and we performed admirably. I later prepared my YZ250 for the TT event with the intention of following in Steve Wise's footsteps, who had podiumed at the National in 1982 on a bike that was essentially a motocross bike. However, I failed to oil the gearbox, which is obviously why it locked up. ...