Now, in the gap between the opening rounds of Extreme E season two, Munnings will follow in teammate Hansen’s footsteps by using the Swift Sport series for identical single-make cars to continue her mixed-surface racing development, driving a car hired from Peter Gwynne Motorsport, just as Hansen did in 2012 ahead of his switch from single-seater circuit racing to European and then World Rallycross, where he has been so successful.

“I was speaking to my Extreme E teammate Timmy Hansen recently about what I could do for some fun training during the long gaps we have in the Extreme E calendar, and racing in the Suzuki Swifts at Lydden sounded like a really cool opportunity,” said Munnings. “Timmy mentioned that he’d entered a round of the Swifts and that it’s a really competitive class – a really good place to learn side-by-side racing. I love the sound of that challenge, it’s something completely different for me. I’m very new to rallycross, I’ve only done one or two races before in different formats, so it’s a new challenge and I’m under no illusions of how it’s going to go, it’s just going to be a great place for me to be getting as much as I can out of the side-by-side racing experience. I’ve done some rallycross in the Nordic series in Sweden and Nitro rallycross in America, but the cars were very different to what I know and required a totally different driving technique, so with the Swifts, I’m hoping I can adapt quickly to the cars and be able to focus on the racing action. Lydden is really close to my home, so hopefully, I can get my family and friends down. It will be so nice to race in the UK, most of my motorsport has been overseas so it will be a lot of fun.”