2009 Components 1 World Champion Jenson Button has completed all of it. He’s reached the top of F1, change into a champion in Tremendous GT, competed on the 24 Hours of Le Mans, raced within the NASCAR Cup Sequence – he’s even pushed a NASCAR inventory automotive at Le Mans!
Final 12 months, he introduced plans to retire following the 2025 World Endurance Championship finale on the 8 Hours of Bahrain. However like all racers, you may’t simply change it off. He’s nonetheless working some historics and classic automobiles, and throughout the Rolex 24 broadcast on Peacock, he expressed a need to run one thing else.
Talking with Marty Snider Steve Letarte, Snider requested if he was actually completed with skilled motorsports.
“Properly you simply talked about NASCAR going to San Diego,” he mentioned with a smile, drawing laughs. “My native race. now (Button lives within the Los Angeles space). Has anybody obtained a Truck that wishes me to drive?”
He later added: “If it’s obtained a wheel and gearstick, I’m there … So yeah, I might like to do a Truck race if it’s attainable.”
NASCAR is taking all three of its nationwide divisions to Naval Base Coronado on the weekend of June 19-21, racing at a brand-new avenue course on an energetic army base in San Diego.
Button has some NASCAR expertise, and never simply within the well-known Storage 56 entry at Le Mans. The 46-year-old Englishman made three Cup begins throughout the 2023 season, all at street/avenue programs. He began twenty fourth and completed 18th at COTA, certified a formidable eighth on the Chicago Avenue Course earlier than ending twenty first, and made his most up-to-date begin on the Indianapolis Street Course the place he began thirty first and completed twenty eighth.
It is actually attainable for him to get on the grid and absolutely a number of Truck Sequence groups would like to have an F1 World Champion behind the wheel. There’s additionally the Kaulig Racing all-star truck, with Ram pushing to herald large names to drive its No. 25 entry all year long. NASCAR Corridor of Famer Tony Stewart is about to make a shock return with that truck within the Daytona season-opener, so perhaps Button ought to give Matt Kaulig a name…
Button’s good buddy and Storage 56 co-driver Jimmie Johnson is working a partial schedule this 12 months in NASCAR, and the seven-time Cup champion beforehand introduced plans to run each the Truck and Cup Sequence races at San Diego.
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