New Audi Racing Director enjoys debut: 'I was more nervous than ever before'

As GPblog was able to report, McNish was chosen as Jonathan Wheatley's replacement by Audi after his sudden exit earlier this season. The Scotsman completed his first weekend in the role in Miami after being confirmed. "I'm actually more nervous now than any time before," says the former driver, who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans on multiple occasions and raced in F1 before.

He continued to GPblog, among others: "I've been at the circuit a few times. It's not the first time, so I understand the ways of the world. Clearly, we've got a lot of experience in different areas of the team, which is good. On the other side of it, I knew quite a lot of the things that we were needing to work on is operational. But on the other side, it was the biggest event that the team had from a marketing and communications with events downtown, so there was a whole load of other stuff apart from what was going on in here as well. So it was actually across many areas, more than necessarily just the racing director operational aspect of it, which is what you have to do in the role."

The Scotsman also talked about his passion for racing. He added: "It was good, look, I've lived to race all my life since I was 11 years old, it's what I love, it's what gets me up in the morning, it's what's my passion, but when I say I live to race, I don't go home happy unless we've won. I know that that's not always the case because in racing in your career you lose more than you win. It's just natural statistics, apart from maybe one or two. But the reality is that this environment is my life, it's my career, it's my hobby, it's my passion. It's always good to be here."