This weekend, Kimi Raikkonen will once again get behind the wheel of Trackhouse Racing’s NASCAR car to race in Austin, on a track he knows from Formula 1.
The day before, Kimi flew the whole family to Texas and almost immediately headed to the team’s base to begin launch preparations and brush up on the skills he had learned last August when he first joined the Project 91 program.
The essence of the program is that the team invites motorsport stars from around the world to individual races and invites them to try their hand at NASCAR in the #91 Chevrolet Camaro. Kimi was the first to be approached by Trackhouse co-owner Justin Marks , and last year’s experiment was recognized as very successful.
This weekend, the collaboration between Kimi and this team will continue. In fact, this process has already begun: the Finn began to work out pit stops, assessed the condition of the track, then had a characteristic dialogue with Ross Chastain, the racer of the main Trackhouse team.
“How was it?” Ross asked.
“Everything is fine. Smooth!” Kimi replied cheerfully.
– Slippery? It doesn’t matter, you’ll get used to the limits of the track, because in this car you can go over them, which you can’t do in a Formula 1 car.
But if it doesn’t end up being Kimi’s first NASCAR race of his career, Jenson Button will make his American Touring Car debut this weekend, but the 2009 World Champion, like Raikkonen, has a versatile racing background, so there’s no doubt that he adapts quickly. to new technology for him.
Source: F1 News
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