Jenson Button will race alongside Earl Bamber and Sebastien Bourdais on this 12 months’s World Endurance Championship on the Jota Cadillac squad.
The 2009 Formulation 1 world champion was named within the #38 Cadillac V-Collection.R LMDh together with Bamber and Bourdais on Tuesday when Jota revealed how the six drivers it introduced in November would line up throughout its two automobiles.
Cadillac Hertz Crew Jota’s sister #12 entry shall be pushed by Alex Lynn, Will Stevens and Norman Nato throughout the complete WEC marketing campaign, starting with the 10-hour Qatar 1812Km on 28 February.
The announcement of the line-ups at Jota for its first season as Cadillac’s manufacturing facility consultant within the WEC means the partnership between Lynn and Bamber has ended after three seasons collectively at Chip Ganassi Racing.
They have been teamed within the WEC aboard the US group’s solo manufacturing facility V-Collection.R in 2023 and 2024, and earlier than that contested the 2022 IMSA SportsCar Championship collectively aboard a Cadillac DPi-V.R Daytona Prototype worldwide.
Bourdais, who’s transferring over from Caddy’s IMSA squad to race within the WEC full-time, joined Bamber and Lynn at Ganassi for the opening and shutting rounds of the 2024 WEC in Qatar and Bahrain respectively.
Cadillac Racing driver line up
Picture by: Richard Prince
Stevens and Nato proceed a partnership that started in one in every of Jota’s buyer Porsche 963 LMDhs in 2024 once they have been joined by Callum Ilott. Button drove with Phil Hanson and Oliver Rasmussen in his first 12 months at Jota final season.
Dieter Gass, group principal of the Jota WEC squad, stated: “Our job was to ascertain which combos made probably the most sense to maximise the general strengths of the group.
“Whereas character and character play a giant function in group dynamics, driving model and preferences have been additionally key elements in figuring out who could be paired in every automobile.
“We took our time over this course of, and we’re actually wanting ahead to seeing what each trios can obtain in Qatar and past.”
Jota director David Clark defined that “getting that chemistry proper, not solely between the drivers however all the group, is one thing we satisfaction ourselves on”.
Cadillac Jota livery
Picture by: Cadillac Communications
He added that in pre-season testing the group had “seen an unbelievable group spirit already construct between our drivers and their crews”.
Bamber can be contesting the IMSA sequence with the Motion Specific Racing Cadillac squad, however the WEC shall be his precedence. Which means he’ll race within the Spa 6 Hours in Could relatively than the clashing Laguna Seca IMSA occasion.
Observe motion begins in Qatar every week earlier than the race with the two-day official prologue take a look at on 21/22 February.
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