Who knew that Tom Cruise would have such an impact on a nine-year old Jenson Button? Little did we know that the kid from Frome in Somerset, who was just beginning to tear up the kart tracks of the UK and then onwards to Formula 1 stardom, was so in awe of Cole Trickle and his somewhat unorthodox journey to winning a fictitious version of the Daytona 500 for Harry Hogge…
“Where I grew up we had four channels on TV, so we didn’t have any NASCAR racing coverage,” says Button. “So, the first NASCAR race I ever watched was Days of Thunder!
