NASCAR Newbie Jenson Button Labels Debut at COTA as “Craziest 4 Hours of Racing Career” While Making a Revengeful Confession

After achieving the ultimate goal in Formula 1, Jenson Button has been on an exploration mission. After F1, the Brit explored the world of Super GT racing and then stepped into the endurance racing league as well. To summarize, the 2009 world champion has been around the racing game since the start of the century. However, it wasn’t until 2023 and his debut in NASCAR that the Brit found some genuine excitement and a little lust for revenge.

These are the words of Button himself as he posted about his debut race on Instagram. The rollercoaster ride was full of emotions and a plethora of physical sensations as well. The Brit predicted this, as he already had mixed feelings about his new challenge in the stock car racing series. However, he couldn’t predict his race, as he mentioned in the caption of the post.

The caption read, “Well that was the craziest 4hrs of my racing career 🤣 think I hit or got hit almost every lap!! What an experience, learning a very different type of race craft, finding good pace and consistency, fighting heat exhaustion, surviving the last 3 restarts and making some aggressive moves oh and revenge is sweet 😉. Still a lot to learn but loved it and pretty happy with placing the @mobil1racing #15 in P18 out of 39 after a rollercoaster race. Bring on Chicago 👊🏽.”

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The craziest four hours of his racing career from an F1 world champion can give us a slight insight into the madhouse that is NASCAR. The Brit even found a taste for revenge by pushing cars around, an act that has serious repercussions in F1.

However, the new challenge was a little too much initially for the Brit. In fact, there was a point in the race when the Brit just wanted to give up, which he revealed post-race.

Jenson Button almost did not finish on his NASCAR debut

The Brit finished his NASCAR debut with a respectable outcome. However, during the race, there was a point where he just wanted to give up and get out of the car. Why? Well, let’s hear it from the world champion himself.

Speaking to the media, Button said, “It was an emotional rollercoaster… At first, it was terrible… The first stint was really bad. It was embarrassing for me. Finished 18th after almost stopping because I had heat exhaustion. I was so close to getting out of the car because I thought I was going to faint. I must’ve drank eight-nine bottles of water during the race.”

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The Brit did not expect the physicality of the sport and paid the price for it initially. However, we are sure a winner like Button will ease into this new challenge and showcase his talent behind the wheel in no time.