The 2009 Method 1 World Champion will make his first-ever NASCAR racing start in its premier Cup Series later this month at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas, driving for Rick Ware Racing in a Ford Mustang offered by Stewart-Haas Racing.
So long as the three races – which additionally embody the inaugural Chicago Road Race in July and the Indianapolis Highway Course in August – go nicely, Button says he’s open to increasing his NASCAR expertise to the ovals.
“I feel all of us knew that an oval wouldn’t be a good suggestion,” he stated of his NASCAR Cup racing debut on FOX’s RaceHub present. “I’d like to do an oval but it surely’s one other skillset altogether. That’s one thing that perhaps I might do sooner or later, if I just like the automotive and the sequence, perhaps it’s a chance.”
When requested by Motorsport.com if having Mobil and Stewart-Haas concerned made his dream of racing in a future Daytona 500 extra possible, Button replied: “It’s. For me, it’s not nearly driving a racing automotive – it’s a racing automotive. It’s very totally different to what I’m used to, you familiarize yourself with it over time, it’s the racing that’s much more tough.
“Having automobiles throughout you, having your spotter telling you who’s the place, plenty of the time you’re caught within the center and you’ll’t actually do a lot. It’s only a totally different sort of racing, and that’s the bit that will take some time.
“I might go and drive on an oval, certain it could take time, however I’d familiarize yourself with it – actually a monitor like Daytona the place it’s flat the entire approach round. It’s if you put different automobiles into the equation and the drafting, the pushing – it’s loads to study.
“Doing that within the Cup Sequence most likely isn’t the easiest way, like me leaping in a Cup automotive at Daytona. It might be higher for me to get in a decrease class first to achieve a little bit of expertise that approach.”
Jenson Button, Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang Photograph by: True Velocity PR
Button stated what occurs after these races is totally open, with sponsor Mobil the driving pressure behind the mission.
“It’s all all the way down to efficiency after that, isn’t it?” stated Button. “The explanation I’ve bought this drive is due to what I’ve finished beforehand, and my relationship with Mobil 1, but when they don’t go nicely then that doesn’t imply a lot for my prospects of getting a drive in 2024 for a full season.
“If I just like the championship, if I just like the automotive and assume it’s enjoyable and pleasing, and I may be aggressive, there’s all the time that chance.
“And the circuits we’ve chosen work out rather well, they’re the right trio. COTA I do know, no person has pushed at Chicago – driving one among these round a avenue course sounds nuts – so it’s the identical for all of us. At Indy, it’s totally different to the monitor I’m used to, however has a number of the similar corners.”