{"id":731321,"date":"2026-06-12T05:34:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/731321\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:34:27","slug":"george-russell-eyes-nascar-run-after-meeting-2023-cup-champion-ryan-blaney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/731321\/","title":{"rendered":"George Russell eyes NASCAR run after meeting 2023 Cup champion Ryan Blaney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/mercedes\/5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mercedes<\/a> Formula 1 driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/george-russell\/21167\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">George Russell<\/a> has revealed that he would love the opportunity to try NASCAR in a video with 2023 Cup champion Ryan Blaney.<\/p>\n<p>In a video organised by WhatsApp, the drivers visited Ford&#8217;s Farm in Homestead, Florida, owned by Michelin-starred chef Jeremy Ford, where they completed farm-related tasks such as picking ylang-ylang flowers, driving a tractor and collecting eggs and honey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, Russell and Blaney sat down with Ford for lunch and discussed farms, racing and what life could look like for them after retiring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I appreciate all forms of racing and I know the challenges in everything we do,&#8221; Russell told Blaney. &#8220;Obviously, a lot of people for you guys on the ovals just think you&#8217;re driving circles. And it&#8217;s so much more technical than that. I definitely appreciate it. I&#8217;d love to try it one day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blaney welcomed the idea and suggested a swap of F1 and NASCAR machinery. &#8220;Well, we&#8217;d have to do a crossover, for sure,&#8221; Blaney responded. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t really grow up open-wheel racing at all, but I love road racing. It was a big thing for me to learn when I got into NASCAR because we do that quite a bit, and it&#8217;s something I didn&#8217;t really grow up doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This comes after a string of tricky races for Russell. After winning the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and the Chinese sprint race, things took a turn for the 28-year-old. As he encountered multiple issues, such as car problems and unfortunately timed safety cars, his 19-year-old team-mate\u00a0Kimi Antonelli took the lead of the championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix on 12-14 June, Antonelli now leads the standings by 66 points and Russell sits third after he was overtaken by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/lewis-hamilton\/1278\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> at the Monaco Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Photos from Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix &#8211; Thursday<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercedes Formula 1 driver George Russell has revealed that he would love the opportunity to try NASCAR in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[262910,49,48,262911,576,3024,263313,1881,634,15224,82,4962],"class_list":["post-731321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-barcelona-catalunya-gp","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1-barcelona-catalunya-grand-prix","tag-formula-1","tag-george-russell","tag-george-russell-eyes-nascar-run-after-meeting-2023-cup-champion-ryan-blaney","tag-mercedes","tag-nascar","tag-ryan-blaney","tag-sports","tag-trendingteam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}