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

Motorsports February 11, 2025
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Jenson Button will race alongside Earl Bamber and Sebastien Bourdais on this yr’s World Endurance Championship on the Jota Cadillac squad. 

The 2009 Formulation 1 world champion was named within the #38 Cadillac V-Sequence.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 Workforce Jota’s sister #12 entry might 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 had been teamed within the WEC aboard the US group’s solo manufacturing facility V-Sequence.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.

Cadillac Racing driver line up

Photograph by: Richard Prince

Stevens and Nato proceed a partnership that started in certainly one of Jota’s buyer Porsche 963 LMDhs in 2024 after 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, group principal of the Jota WEC squad, mentioned: “Our job was to ascertain which mixtures made probably the most sense to maximise the general strengths of the group.

“Whereas character and character play a giant position in group dynamics, driving model and preferences had been additionally key components in figuring out who could 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 complete group, is one thing we pleasure ourselves on”.

Cadillac Jota livery

Cadillac Jota livery

Photograph by: Cadillac Communications

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

Bamber can be contesting the IMSA collection with the Motion Categorical Racing Cadillac squad, however the WEC might be his precedence. Which means he’ll race within the Spa 6 Hours in Might 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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