2009 Formulation 1 champion Jenson Button is ready to make his Goodwood Members’ Assembly debut at subsequent 12 months’s 83rd instalment of the occasion.
The Briton will reunite along with his championship-winning automotive, the Brawn BGP 001, which he final drove in 2019 on the tenth anniversary of his drivers’ title victory.
Button’s look on the Goodwood Members’ Assembly follows his retirement from skilled motor racing. Having retired from F1 on the finish of the 2017 season, the 45-year-old has since raced in Tremendous GT, British GT, the 24 Hours of Daytona, the NASCAR Cup, and the World Endurance Championship. He stepped away from the motive force’s seat on the finish of the 2025 WEC season to spend extra time along with his household.
“I’m excited to be making my Members’ Assembly debut, and in no much less particular a automotive than the Brawn BGP 001,” the previous F1 driver stated. “I final had an opportunity to drive it again in 2019, which was extremely emotional and fairly surreal. I can’t wait to expertise that feeling once more, and the place higher than Goodwood!”
Jenson Button, Brawn BGP 001
Photograph by: Darren Heath – Getty Photographs
The Duke of Richmond CBE DL stated: “I can’t wait to see Jenson again behind the wheel of the fabled Brawn BGP 001 on the 83rd Members’ Assembly. Seeing, and listening to, a contemporary Formulation 1 automotive at pace across the Goodwood Motor Circuit is all the time a thrill – a tantalising glimpse at what might need been, had the circuit not closed in 1966.
“And this time will probably be much more particular, as we replicate on the profession of one in all Britain’s hottest World Champions, and the distinctive success of the Brawn group throughout that tremendous 2009 season.
“Jenson has been a loyal supporter of every part we do at Goodwood since he first entered F1 practically 26 years in the past, though remarkably this would be the first time he has ever pushed the Brawn right here. It actually will probably be an ‘I used to be there’ second, and the absolute best method to rejoice the tip of Jenson’s skilled racing profession.”
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