Jenson Button has no ambitions to return to the Le Mans 24 Hours on a one-off foundation after he steps again from the World Endurance Championship on the finish of 2025.
The 2009 Method 1 world champion defined that the complexities concerned in driving a WEC Hypercar class entry imply he has no real interest in a seat for Le Mans solely sooner or later.
“If you wish to race in endurance you’ve got to be in it the entire time,” mentioned Button, who joined the Hypercar subject final 12 months in one in every of Jota’s buyer Porsches and segued into its manufacturing facility programme with Cadillac for 2025.
“It’s essential to have learnt what is going on with the automotive, the programs. Each time I get within the automotive there’s something totally different and new studying once more.
“If you bounce in if you end up 44 years of age, it undoubtedly takes you longer than if you end up in your 20s.”
#38 Cadillac Hertz Crew Jota Cadillac V-Sequence.R: Earl Bamber, Sebastien Bourdais, Jenson Button
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Button burdened in July that he was not retiring from the cockpit when he confirmed his departure from Jota on the finish of his two-year contract, saying that he anticipated to be “racing one thing” in 2026 though not by way of a full marketing campaign.
He has now clarified his place, stressing that he is not going to be “racing professionally” and solely be “racing for enjoyable” sooner or later.
Button defined that his focus any longer shall be historic racing.
“I really like historics for some cause; it’s my age clearly,” he mentioned.
Button has a rising fleet of historic racing vehicles: for this season he has added a Jaguar E-type to the C-type, as soon as five-time world champion Juan Manuel Fangio’s highway automotive, and the Alfa Romeo GT Junior he already owned.
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He raced each Jaguars at this month’s Goodwood Revival, taking a primary victory on the occasion in RAC TT Celebration, sharing the C-type with Alex Buncombe.
Button advised {that a} return to the NASCAR Cup sequence, during which he contested one highway course and one road course occasion with the Rick Ware Racing Ford crew in 2023, is just not out of the query.
“NASCAR could be very totally different [to Hypercar], as a result of it is vitally mechanical,” he defined.
“I may most likely do this as a result of I may bounce in and really feel what the automotive is doing: you don’t have all of the programs, so it loads simpler.”
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