Jenson Button: Former F1 world champion signs three-race Nascar deal

Jenson Button won six grands prix connected his mode to the 2009 Formula 1 rubric successful his 1 play racing for Brawn

Former Formula 1 satellite champion Jenson Button volition contention successful 3 Nascar Cup Series meetings this year.

Button volition besides instrumentality portion successful the inaugural Chicago Street Race connected 2 July and vie astatine the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course connected 13 August.

"The astir important happening for maine is to bask it," said Button, who won 15 grands prix during a 17-year F1 career.

Button's archetypal Nascar contention volition instrumentality spot astatine the Circuit of the Americas successful Austin astatine the extremity of this period wherever helium volition thrust a Mobil 1 Ford Mustang for Rick Ware Racing.

Since retiring from F1 successful 2017 Button has enjoyed occurrence successful different motorsport arenas, winning the 2018 Super GT Championship and besides competing successful endurance races including the Le Mans 24 Hours.

"I emotion that situation of driving caller things," Button added. "Every clip an ex-F1 operator gets successful a banal car these days, they conflict initially.

"It takes a portion for them to get up to speed, truthful I don't expect to beryllium close astatine the beforehand consecutive away. But I'm not conscionable doing it for amusive successful immoderate one-off.

"I privation to beryllium competitive, and I cognize that to beryllium competitory it's going to instrumentality a spot of time. That's wherefore doing these 3 races works precise good this season."

Button volition besides instrumentality portion successful the Le Mans 24 Hours 100th day this year, racing a Next-Gen Nascar modified Chevrolet Camaro successful a collaboration with Le Mans organisers.

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