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

Jenson Button will race alongside Earl Bamber and Sebastien Bourdais on this yr’s World Endurance Championship on the Jota Cadillac squad. 

The 2009 Method 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 would line up across its two cars. 

Cadillac Hertz Workforce Jota’s sister #12 entry can be pushed by Alex Lynn, Will Stevens and Norman Nato throughout the total 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 had been teamed within the WEC aboard the US staff’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 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.

Stevens and Nato proceed a partnership that started in one among Jota’s buyer Porsche 963 LMDhs in 2024 once they had been joined by Callum Ilott. Button drove with Phil Hanson and Oliver Rasmussen in his first yr at Jota final season.

Dieter Gass, staff principal of the Jota WEC squad, stated: “Our job was to ascertain which mixtures made essentially the most sense to maximise the general strengths of the group.

“Whereas character and character play an enormous position in staff dynamics, driving type and preferences had been additionally key components in figuring out who can be paired in every automotive. 

“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 your entire staff, is one thing we delight ourselves on”.

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He added that in pre-season testing the staff had “seen an unimaginable staff spirit already construct between our drivers and their crews”. 

Bamber can also be contesting the IMSA sequence with the Motion Categorical Racing Cadillac squad, however the WEC can be his precedence. Meaning he’ll race within the Spa 6 Hours in Might quite than the clashing Laguna Seca IMSA occasion.

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