Jenson Button really enjoyed out-dragging Prototypes at Le Mans.
Jenson Button is prepping for next weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series race in Chicago, but he’s still buzzing from Le Mans. As you well know, he ran there with NASCAR’s Garage 56 effort in a Camaro stock-car modified for. The hulking Camaro may have looked out of place in France, but it was fast. Faster over a lap than any of the GTE cars entered and nipping at the heels of the slower LMP2 prototypes. To Button, this was endlessly amusing.
Button says he couldn’t have imagined the sight beforehand. “I loved it. It made me smile a lot out on track. I'm sure it annoyed a lot of drivers out there, but that's what made me smile even more.” He also got to see the fan response firsthand. Throughout the weekend, fans cheered every time the Camaro thundered past, its V-8 an order of magnitude louder than anything else on the track. The Garage 56 team wanted to be fast, but as they were a non-classified “innovative car” entry, the bigger goal was to create a spectacle, and to bring new fans to NASCAR.
“I think a lot of drivers, they're at the top level of one category, they're worried about stepping out of their comfort zone, trying something new and not being as competitive,” he said. “Whereas for me, I feel I've got nothing to lose. You know, I've won the world championship in F1. Now I'm going racing because I love racing and I love learning new things, and those challenges are what keep me going. Otherwise, I wouldn't be racing anymore.
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