Formula One was never on Kyle Busch’s radar as he chased his dream of being a NASCAR superstar.

That doesn’t mean he wouldn’t consider a legitimate opportunity to join the globe-hopping series.

“I toss the idea around,” he said Friday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. “It’s definitely something I wouldn’t shoot down, but I don’t think it’s the right time yet in my career and where I’m at.”

Busch is in his second season with Joe Gibbs Racing, where he’s emerged as one of NASCAR’s most talented drivers. It has landed him on Peter Windsor’s wish list of potential drivers for a planned U.S.-based Formula One team.

Windsor, one of two businessmen behind the effort to field USF1 in 2010, mentioned Busch’s name earlier this week as an American driver the team would like to hire. Busch, who is signed with JGR through 2010, said he’s not been contacted by the team.

Should they call – or any other F1 team- he’d be willing to someday listen.

“It’s something that I’d love to give a shot at one day,” he said. “It was never on my radar. Open-wheel stuff wasn’t, but it’s something that I wouldn’t mind trying. I wouldn’t mind trying IndyCars and running the Indianapolis 500 or Formula One. It’s not quite the time for me to do that yet.

“If I could win a championships here in the next two or three years, then I wouldn’t mind going over there and doing that, trying it for a few years and coming back. I think I’d still be young enough that if I could win a championship by 25, go run Formula One for a few years, be back by 28. I still have plenty of time left to run in NASCAR.”

Juan Pablo Montoya made the move from Formula One to NASCAR, and said Busch’s lack of experience in open-wheel cars would make a potential move difficult.

“He grew driving these things, and open wheel is very different,” Montoya said. “He would have a very hard transition. He runs very well on the ovals. He does a very good job on the road courses. But it is a different car, it is a different animal.”

Busch had an opportunity to drive an F1 car last December through Toyota, but had to pass on the demonstration because of a scheduling conflict with NASCAR’s Nationwide Series awards ceremony.

Hookscenter.com wire report.