“It’s a bit like an enormous ‘be a part of the dots’. You’ve bought to hit each apex and be in the correct place on the highway. It’s one thing you develop as an individual, there’s no handbook that tells you the right way to do it.”
Rallycross isn’t McGuinness’s first style of motorsport on 4 wheels. A couple of years in the past, due to his ties with Honda and Dunlop, he was invited to drive a works Honda BTCC automobile at Knockhill alongside its common pilot, Gordon Shedden.
“I actually loved it,” he says. “Good climate, a championship-winning automobile and all of the data-logging guys there. I actually grabbed on the alternative. I may have simply gone there, cruised round and had a pleasant day trip, however I needed to make it depend, so after I got here in after my first session, we overlaid my knowledge on Gordon’s and I studied the place he was braking and so on. I believed, no matter occurs I’m going to go quick.
“You actually use extra kerb in a automobile, working throughout them. For those who did that on a superbike, you’d be off. I went fairly shortly and afterwards spoke to a few groups, however after they talked about the cash it prices, I ran within the different path.
“The automobile felt a bit asthmatic. Out of gradual corners you’d be ready for it to get going, whereas a superbike is spinning its again wheel and preventing its method out. Once they put 20kg of gas within the automobile, I couldn’t consider the impact it had. I requested what they’d accomplished as a result of the automobile felt so completely different.
“The Citroën supercar rallycross automobile was completely different. That was a automobile you actually must get on high of. Not that the RX150 buggies are simple. I assume bike racers are inclined to go fairly effectively in vehicles as a result of they really feel safer and maybe we are inclined to have greater balls.
