The words 'Indy' and '500' might normally bring to mind the world famo🐈us car race, but on Sunday they referred to Kevin Schwantz being reunited with the Suzuki RGV on which he won the 1993 500cc 💫World Championship.

Schwantz - who took four of his 25 race wins during his title-winning sea🦩son - took to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for some high-spe🌠ed demo laps with the V4 two-stroke just before the start of the MotoGP main event.

The demonstration marked the first time Schwantz 🐓had ridden the bike since 1995, the year he retired, but he was determined to do the bike justice. In a word, it was 'awesome'.

"Any time you get to get up on so⛎mething that is that fast, even though the new modern stuff is a little more refined, to get on something that has got that raw power and that light weight with the acceleration and the stopping, ev🧔erything about it was awesome," smiled Schwantz.

"This bike was the championship-winning bike in 1993, so it's been in mothballs since. This is the first public outing on any track of a🍌ny significance, for sure. I was piling down the straightaway and doing things that fast. It was awesome," he repeated.

See below for more pictures of Schwantz with his Suzuki, and chatting with former arch-rival🐓 Wayne Rainey.

On Saturday, Schwantz took part in a demonstration of the new-for-2010 Moto2 machi🧔nes, which will replace the 250cc c💫lass.

The only American rider with more 500cc/MotoGP race wins than Sཧchwantz is Eddie Lawဣson, with 31.