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Yours truly with the C4 Transformer - Kenneth Hansen

There are some terrific talents throughout the world of motorsport, despite the TV media having you believe that the only one worth mentioning is Lewis Hamilton.

Every now and again, my job allows me the chance to get first hand experience of such talent and recently this occurred at an event organised by Citroen at Rockingham.

Having donned a full race suit and squeezed a medium-sized crash helmet onto my extra-large cranium (someone had already claimed the XL hat), I was invited to take a seat next to the 13 times FIA European Rallycross champion Kenneth Hansen, in his competition Citroen C4.

I must confess that I’ve not followed the rallycross scene since the early 1980s, and even then, I only saw the little coverage that was featured on Grandstand, so I politely shook Mr Hansen’s hand and said, “Pleased to meet you.”

Sensing that I had no idea who he was, he gave me a brief resume: he told me humbly that he had been involved in motorsport for over 30 years, starting out in karts, but had never imagined that it would become his career as he had been training to make butter and cheese!

After a couple of startlingly, electrifyingly hot laps of the makeshift gravel circuit (which Kenneth himself had marked out the day before), we finally came to a halt and as my intense adrenaline rush began to subside just a little, I turned to Kenneth with the broadest grin that my helmet would allow and said, “Thank you very much. If that’s how you drive, I’d like to try some of your butter and cheese!”

We’ve posted a video with highlights of the day. It will only give you a taster of what it’s like to ride with Kenneth Hansen - a true modern day motorsport hero. If you get the chance to see him in action - don’t miss it.