Jenson Button and Kimi Raikkonen took on the great and the good of NASCAR at COTA - but it didn't play out how they would have hoped 😅 Here's insight into how they got on and what went wrong ⬇️
After another yellow, the 2007 F1 world champion had clearly had enough of going backwards and piled into the back ofby choosing the outside lane for the next restart, but the punter soon became the punted; he got spun further around the lap and would end his day way in 29“They kept coming, getting more restarts and more restarts, so I think after the spin I had, the tyres were just done,” he reflected afterwards.
“The action is amazing, I have to give it to these guys,” said Button. “The first 10 laps, they just destroyed me. Left me standing. Every time I was in a corner, I had someone overtaking me. “In the [next] stint I’d had a whack from Kimi, and it just felt so oversteery, I just went backwards. I need to improve some things in the car, but I enjoyed the end. I got it wrong on the last restart, but I made up five or six places on the last two laps.”Photo by: Nigel Kinrade / NKP /Button’s next event will be the Chicago Street Race in July, so he has some time to work with his Rick Ware Racing team to get him more comfortable in his Ford Mustang.
It wasn’t just the F1 guys who found the going tough: Corvette’s IMSA ace Jordan Taylor, in for the injuredat Hendrick Motorsport, starred by qualifying in fourth, but this road course ringer tumbled in the early going after flatspotting a tyre.that dropped him to 24“We had great speed all weekend,” said Taylor. “It’s just too bad our end result didn’t reflect that. I was a little too cautious to begin with and had a couple of mistakes that set us back early on.
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