British racer John McGuinness marked his racing return to Daytona International Speedway by winning the Solo class of Friday’s Formula USA Team Challenge on his Aim Racing Kawasaki ZX-10R Superbike. “I didn’t expect to win,” said McGuinness. “We’re just here to have a bit of fun, really. I’m just here to have a test with my new bike and team. We were going to go to Spain, but it’s been cold and rainy down there the last few years. And after you shuttle all the guys and stuff down there, it’s just as easy to stick your stuff in a fly box and bring everything here and have a bit of a holiday, too.” “I don’t particularly like them,” said McGuinness of the changes to Daytona’s infield section. “It’s spoiled it for me, really. But I understand why they did it, because the bikes have so much horsepower now and they have such a hard time keeping tires on them.” “I’ve ridden around here on a 250 (McGuinness won the AMA 250cc Grand Prix in 1999 and 2000.), but it’s just awesome riding a Superbike around here. You even get slides up on the bank!” McGuinness said he planned to use the CCS/Formula USA weekend to warm-up for the AMA Superbike race March 12. Asked if he considered racing in the Formula Xtreme Daytona 200, McGuinness said, “Yeah, but it would be so expensive to build a bike for that one race that you couldn’t run anywhere else.” McGuiness, 32, plans to contest the entire British Superbike series, several classes of the Isle of Man TT, several other “true road races” in Ireland and the Macau Grand Prix in 2005.