LAS VEGAS -- Kurt Busch's dream scenario on May 25 would complicate a logistical nightmare beyond imagination.

The question was posed Saturday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway: What if Busch did win the Indianapolis 500? How would he feel about cutting short the age-old victory party at The Greatest Spectacle in Racing so he can make it to Charlotte in time for the start of NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600?

Kurt Busch on driving in the 2014 Indianapolis 500: "It will be challenging, not knowing what to expect." Todd Warshaw/NASCAR/Getty Images

Realizing that a win in his first competitive turn in an Indy car would be a pinch-me moment worthy of Hollywood, Busch didn't hold back -- oh, he positively glowed -- when he delivered his answer.

"I'd love to have that problem," Busch said, smiling. "Keep in mind I have zero experience in an Indy car and this will be the toughest challenge, especially when they drop the green flag. I think single-car runs, coming up to speed, going on qualifying runs, all that should handle itself. When they drop the green at Indianapolis and 33 cars barrel down into Turn 1 and all that dirty air and the movement of the cars and being able to digest closing rates at 220 [mph] versus stock cars that average around 185, everything is different.

"Let's say it does happen. There will be quick celebration in Victory Lane with the Borg-Warner, the chug of milk, of course, and that big wreath. I can't wait to hand that to Michael Andretti so he can wear it, and he can handle all the media while I got to run down to Charlotte.

"To respect the Indy 500 and to have that moment to win it, you can't let it pass by," continued Busch, who is promoting the Armed Forces Foundation in this venture. "Yet there are duties I have with Gene Haas and Tony Stewart with this 41 car. But there's a banquet on Monday to come back and to celebrate up in Indianapolis afterward."

In other words, Busch's reach-for-the-stars dilemma surrounding his much-ballyhooed Indy 500/Coke 600 double on Memorial Day weekend would be worth it. Absolutely.

Busch, the 2004 Sprint Cup Series champion, is the first person to recognize the height of the mountain he is about to scale. To go from an open-wheel machine prepared by Andretti Autosport to a stock car in the Stewart-Haas Racing stable some 500 miles away -- and covering a combined 1,100 miles of asphalt -- will test Busch's limits physically and psychologically.

"It will be challenging, not knowing what to expect," he said. "... There's just no margin for error with an Indy car. You have to drive that car at 90 percent and you've got to trust it to go to that 99 percent level, and that's done by the best, that's done by the guys that are champions in that sport, the guys that have won the Indy 500 before."