And I remember thinking one day to race in NASCAR was my dream."Įven after his F1 career, which yielded a single podium from 75 race starts between 20, Kobayashi found that his NASCAR dream remained in the back of his mind. "What I saw when I was really young was a NASCAR race, because it was an oval. "And the first time when I raced a go-kart, honestly I didn't know Formula 1. Joining Toyota Racing Development USA president David Wilson on stage, Kobayashi revealed that he "was for a long time" searching for the right opportunity to go stock car racing as "actually my memory, first racing on TV was actually NASCAR". Kobayashi will take over the #67 car previously driven by Travis Pastrana to an 11th place finish at the Daytona 500 for his first outing in a stock car, following in the footsteps of fellow ex-Formula 1 racers Kimi Raikkonen, Daniil Kvyat and Jenson Button who have all made Cup debuts in the last 12 months.
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