Former racing champion Jenson Button talks about his travels, from road trips to top hotels

Jenson Button checks into our vacation Q&A

This 7 days, previous F1 champion Jenson Button checks in to our journey Q&A.

He reveals his top rated driving places, his wackiest street vacation, and far more… 

In which was your past trip?

I just obtained back from Napa celebrating my wife’s birthday, which was epic. We had wonderful meals and wine in the gorgeous sunshine. It couldn’t have been any greater. Prior to that I was in London for the launch of my whisky manufacturer, Coachbuilt.

What’s your to start with travel memory?

Spouse and children holiday seasons in Majorca. I employed to like them.

Jenson’s earliest journey reminiscences are of family holidays in Majorca, he reveals. Above is a fountain in the Majorcan money of Palma

Your most unforgettable excursion?

That would be Rubens’s aircraft trip. I flew on Brazilian racing driver Rubens Barrichello’s private plane again to the United kingdom from Brazil when I won the Environment Championship.

The place is your major driving spot?

There are so numerous destinations I adore to travel but The Canyons, by the Pacific Coastline Freeway as you go previous Large Sur, are unbeatable.

What is been your wackiest street journey?

Driving down to contend in the Baja 1000, which is an yearly Mexican off-highway motorsport race. The border crossings are wonderful to travel by, if not a small bit scary.

Jenson reveals that Cabo, Mexico (pictured), is property to his favorite resort

At any time had a packing catastrophe?

Of course, when I received the Monaco Grand Prix in 2009, and I didn’t have a tux for the winners’ evening meal at the Prince’s Palace of Monaco. So I was scrambling around, making an attempt to borrow sections from different individuals as no one was my dimension in every little thing.

Favourite lodge?

The Montage Resort in Cabo, Mexico, only a two-and half-hour journey from in which I reside in Los Angeles.

• F1 racing driver Jenson Button and whisky specialist George Koutsakis have collaborated on a blended Scotch referred to as Coachbuilt (coachbuiltwhisky.com).