INTERVIEW
JCR RACING'S JOHNNY CAMPBELL
P90
all fronts. That was very, very
instrumental in all groups,
cooperating with each other
and being able to hit those
dates of when things needed
to be finalized and stuff. I feel
we reached those goals, that
target and the final product is
going to turn some heads.
At the Glen Helen 24
Hour Endurance Race in
2015, we saw that Hide
Hanawa was here. Were
you doing some R&D on
this project then?
[laughs] Well, we're always
doing R&D in every race. I
can't be specific of some of
the details that we do dur-
ing our racing. There's stuff
the racers don't even know
we're doing and checking in
the data that I'm supplying
back to R&D. But yeah, that
24-Hour was some of the stuff
we were working on.
Talk about working with
Bruce Ogilvie. It seems
like his influence is still
a big part of the develop-
ment you do for Honda.
Bruce Ogilvie, my mentor
and former boss and friend,
was always very instrumen-
tal in guiding me along my
career. I spent over 17 years
under his wing. His main job,
his main focus wasn't just
managing the off-road race
team—that was only about 20
percent of his job. Really his
job was, he was American
Honda's eyes and ears at
Honda R&D as far as testing
and evaluation and bringing
that evaluation back to them.
Bruce brought me in and
educated me along my racing
career and taught me how to
develop motorcycles and give
input that's very valuable to
the engineers.
"When you see success in your competition, you
either do two things: You either go for it and want
to go beat them and catch them, or you go away."
