Button switches from Williams to Aston Martin in F1 team ambassador role
Aston Martin has signed 2009 Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button as its team ambassador on a multi-year deal. Button previously was an ambassador with additional advisor and heritage driver roles for Williams from 2021 to 2025, having made his F1 debut with the team in 2000. The Briton never raced for the Silverstone-based outfit […]
Jack Aitken replaces Jenson Button in Cadillac’s 2026 WEC line-up
One-time Formula 1 starter Jack Aitken will join Cadillac’s World Endurance Championship line-up next year, replacing the retired Jenson Button at the factory Jota team. Aitken, who has been representing the GM marque in the IMSA SportsCar Championship since 2023, will share the #38 Cadillac V-Series.R with incumbents Earl Bamber and Sebastien Bourdais. This will […]
Sebastien Bourdais rages about Jenson Button’s penalty in Bahrain: “I’m tired of it”
Cadillac driver Sebastien Bourdais has lashed out at the stewards’ decision to penalise his team-mate Jenson Button in the World Endurance Championship finale in Bahrain. One-time Formula 1 world champion Button, competing in his final professional race, was slapped with a 30-second stop/go penalty for causing a collision with the #54 Ferrari 296 GT3 of […]
How McLaren picked up each of its record 12 Brazil F1 wins
Interlagos 1974 – Fittipaldi triumphs on home soil Emerson Fittipaldi, McLaren, Clay Regazzoni, Ferrari, Jacky Ickx, Lotus Photo by: David Phipps McLaren’s 1974 campaign started off strongly, with Denny Hulme winning the opening round in Buenos Aires while Emerson Fittipaldi triumphed on home soil at the old-school, curvy, dusty, bumpy 7.96km Interlagos track. On his […]
Jenson Button reveals next career path ahead of WEC exit
Jenson Button has no ambitions to return to the Le Mans 24 Hours on a one-off basis after he steps back from the World Endurance Championship at the end of 2025. The 2009 Formula 1 world champion explained that the complexities involved in driving a WEC Hypercar class entry mean he has no interest in […]
Jenson Button will leave WEC after 2025, but won’t retire yet
Jenson Button will not continue in the World Endurance Championship with the Jota Cadillac team next season. The 2009 Formula 1 world champion has opted against undertaking a full programme of racing in 2026, but has insisted that he is not retiring. Button, who has a two-year contract with Jota covering the 2024 and ’25 […]
I’ve got two kids, I know what it’s like not sleeping
When you go to the Le Mans 24 Hours as a journalist, there’s a list of evergreen topics that come up every year: traffic, rain, nighttime driving, traffic again… and sleep. The schedule can be gruelling for drivers, with practice running until 12am on Wednesday and Thursday nights, and media commitments in the morning. On […]
Is Cadillac walking into a trap of its own making while chasing victory at Le Mans?
With four LMDh prototypes on the grid, Cadillac will be the most represented manufacturer in the Hypercar class at the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans. Porsche also has four 963s entered, but one of them is fielded by the customer team Proton, while the American force is operating as a unified front at the […]
Jota-Cadillac announces Button’s co-drivers for 2025 WEC
Jenson Button will race alongside Earl Bamber and Sebastien Bourdais in this year’s World Endurance Championship at the Jota Cadillac squad. The 2009 Formula 1 world champion was named in the #38 Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh along with Bamber and Bourdais on Tuesday when Jota revealed how the six drivers it announced in November would line […]