Jota announces Button’s co-drivers for 2025 WEC and factory Cadillac debut

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 System 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 announced in November will line up across its two cars. 

Cadillac Hertz Crew Jota’s sister #12 entry will likely 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 factory representative in 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 workforce’s solo manufacturing unit 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 shifting 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.

Stevens and Nato proceed a partnership that started in one in all Jota’s buyer Porsche 963 LMDhs in 2024 once they have been joined with Callum Ilott.

Button drove with Phil Hanson and Oliver Rasmussen in his first 12 months at Jota final season.

Dieter Gass, workforce principal of the Jota WEC squad, mentioned: “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 position in workforce dynamics, driving fashion 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 trying 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 the whole workforce is one thing we pleasure ourselves on”.

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Photograph by: Cadillac Communications

He added that in pre-season testing the workforce had “seen an unimaginable workforce 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 will likely be his precedence. 

Which means he’ll race within the Spa 6 Hours in Might somewhat than the clashing Laguna Seca IMSA occasion.

Monitor motion begins in Qatar per week earlier than the race with the two-day official prologue take a look at on 21/22 February.