Jenson Button will leave WEC after 2025, however won’t retire
Jenson Button will not continue in the World Endurance Championship with the Jota Cadillac group next season.
The 2009 Solution 1 world champ has actually chosen versus carrying out a complete programme of racing in 2026, but has actually firmly insisted that he is not retiring.
Button, who has a two-year contract with Jota covering the 2024 and ’25 seasons, listed his hectic work schedule, that includes acting as a pundit on Sky TV’s F1 coverage, and family factors for stepping down from full-time competition.
“Life has got too hectic with a lot of different things going on– it is a very busy schedule I have,” said Button.
“It has to do with time I start considering the future a bit more, and I want to spend more time with my family.
“It is unjust also to the group: I probably do not have adequate time to offer to it, particularly next year.”
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Jota Cadillac V-Series. R: Earl Bamber, Sebastien Bourdais, Jenson Button Picture by: FIAWEC-DPPI Button stressed that he intends to race in 2026: “I will be racing in something next year, however not a complete season.”
Asked if that might include a return to the NASCAR Cup Series in which he carried out three races in 2023, he was non-committal. “Possibly, we’ll see,” he stated.
Button’s post-F1 profession has included appearances in numerous series, in addition to two stints in the WEC, starting with four races in 2018-19 driving one of SMP Racing’s AER-engined BR1 Engineering LMP1s.
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The handle Jota to drive among its client Porsche 963 LMDhs in the WEC last year represented his first full programme considering that a two-year stint in the Super GT Series with the Team Kunimitsu Honda squad in 2018 and ’19, which yielded the title with Naoki Yamamato in year one.
There have actually also been trips for Button in the British GT Championship and Extreme E driving for his own teams, as well as the IMSA SportsCar Championship and Nitro Rallycross Champion.
Jota manager Sam Hignett, whose team provided Cadillac a maiden WEC victory at Interlagos last weekend, made an honest reference to Button’s departure when going over the chauffeur line-up for Cadillac’s factory WEC squad next year.
“There will be one modification; one motorist has been really public about what his future is,” he said. “Apart from that everybody else will be the same.”
When asked about a replacement for the leaving chauffeur, Hignett refused to be drawn and mentioned that there would be no statement prior to the WEC season finale in Bahrain in November.
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