{"id":50706,"date":"2025-08-07T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50706\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:41:10","slug":"isle-of-man-tt-legend-john-mcguinness-to-race-in-radical-different-machinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50706\/","title":{"rendered":"Isle of Man TT legend John McGuinness to race in radical different machinery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isle of Man TT legend John McGuinness will once again hop in the cab of a lorry for the Donington round of the British Truck Racing Championship.<\/p>\n

The 23-time Isle of Man TT winner has dabbled over the years in four-wheel competition, making appearances in rallycross and truck racing.<\/p>\n

Last year at Donington\u2019s Convoy in the Park event, he took a maiden truck racing podium<\/a>, having made his debut at the event in 2023.<\/p>\n

McGuinness will once again team up with Team Oliver Racing for this weekend\u2019s Convoy in the Park event at Donington.<\/p>\n

The 53-year-old will contest the International Truck Prix series races.<\/p>\n

In a statement from Team Oliver Racing, McGuinness says he \u201ccouldn\u2019t turn down\u201d the opportunity to race trucks again and vows to \u201cgive it everything\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had such a blast racing with Team Oliver the last couple of years at Donington,\u201d McGuinness said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I couldn\u2019t turn down the chance to come back.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe atmosphere at Convoy in the Park is unreal and the crowd always give me such a warm welcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cJumping into a race truck is always a buzz – it\u2019s a different world from bikes, but the thrill of competition is the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really grateful to Stuart [Oliver] and the team for having me back, and I\u2019ll be giving it everything in the International Truck Prix.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s have some fun and put on a great show.\u201d<\/p>\n

Team owner Stuart Oliver says his squad will \u201cpush hard to put on a great show for the fans and I\u2019m confident we can be right in the mix again\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isle of Man TT legend John McGuinness will once again hop in the cab of a lorry for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,42847,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-50706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-john-mcguinness","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}