"Just a nice little drive through the French countryside, right?"
Jenson Button, the 2009 Formula One world champion and winner of 15 Grand Prix races grins. He has been asked about the next racing machine he will pilot, in the 100th anniversary edition of the planet's greatest endurance race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
He will be one of three co-drivers, not in a Ferrari, a Porsche or even a Cadillac or a Glickenhaus but in a by-god NASCAR-branded Next Gen Chevy Camaro ZL1 with a 750-horsepower, 5.8-liter V-8 built in Concord, North Carolina, alongside the rides of Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson.