Jenson Button is working on plans for a serious raci🐠ng programme next year and exploring a number of options, but says he does not miss racing in Formula 1.

Button retired from F1 at the end of last ꦅyear before making a one-off retu♛rn at Monaco in place of Fernando Alonso, and appeared in the Suzuka 1,000km Super GT race with Honda-backed Team Mugen in August.

Sp🐈eaking to reporters at Suzuka ahead of this weekend'🌄s Japanese Grand Prix, Button said he had no desire to return to F1 full-time, but wants a racing programme elsewhere in 2018.

"Do I miss F1? No. I don't🍸, I miss racing," Button said.

"I had fallen out of love a little bit with motorsport. I think I left it m🤡aybe a year too long racing in Formula 1.

"I spoke to Honda at the end of last year and I said would you mind if I had a bit of fun in your Super GT car, and I did at the Honda Thanks Day at the end of last year. I loved it, and that was j🐠ust me on my ow🎃n.

"So after that I asked them𒀰 if I could do the Suzuka 1,000km, they said they thought that they could work something out. So I came here completely green in the formula, it i🤡s completely different to anything I have ever done, racing round with another category.

"We didn't get a very good result, I think we had every issue you could po🥂ssibly have, but I came away and felt that I had the love back for racing. I absolutely loved it, as soon as we were finished I wanted to get back in the car and do it all again.

"It has been a while since I had that feeling, I've been itching t🅺o dri🌳ve anything to be fair.

"Next year I will be racing somꦡething I don't know what yet, whether it will be in America Europe or Japan. There are few options and I want to take it properly se🦄riously."

Button confirmed he has held talks with Honda about racing full-time in Super GT next year, and is also interested in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship's DPi🌳 class.

"I discuss it directly with Honda, Yamamoto-san. He asked 𒊎me after the race whether I would be interested in r🍎acing in 2018, and I said yeah definitely I have the interest, I've just driven the car and it was a right hoot," Button said.

"So its possible I'll be racing here, and obviously I love Japan anyway. It would be an experience for me to spend more time here and experience more of
Japan and the history of Japan which I love.

"I think IMSA - I don't know what it's called🦂 now - where the DPi cars race, I love the fact that there’s a selection of tubs that they can race with and they can make it their own with their aerodynamic package and power unit. There’s a few manufacturers racing there and that’s great and it’s definitel♈y a growing motorsport in America.

"The GT category is great but I’m not sure I could be in a car being overtaken by the P2 cars. That’s something I can’t get my head around. I’d love to do Le Mans at some point but I’m not sure it’s the right time to jump ✨in and do it.

"I think the LMP2 c🍷ategory is awesome, I think it’s great, there’s so many teams, there’s a lot of talented drivers but you have P1. So I don’t know, I just can’t get my head around racing a car that is 20 seconds slower than something e♌lse."