Jenson Button signs three-race NASCAR Cup deal

DEBUT: Jenson Button will make his NASCAR debut later this month (Bradley Collyer/PA)

Jenson Button has signed a deal to race in three NASCAR Cup Series meetings this year.

The 2009 Formula One world champion, 43, will make his debut in the stock car championship at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas – a venue he raced at during his F1 career – on March 26.