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Button, Räikkönen racing NASCAR in Austin illustrates how perception of stock cars has changed in F1

"If I'm being honest, never in a million years ..."

Jenson Button, the 15-time Formula One race winner, is speaking for himself. At least, that is his intent. The reality is that his statement of excited disbelief is a sentiment shared by everyone who will be hard at work in the paddock of Circuit of the Americas outside of Austin, Texas, this weekend. That's where the 2009 F1 world champion will make his stock car racing debut.

He won't be the only F1 world champion on the starting grid, either. Don't worry. Your eyes and brain work just fine.