The 43-year-old will undertake a full season of racing for the primary time since his sophomore marketing campaign within the Tremendous GT Collection with the Kunimitsu Honda group in 2019 in one of many pair of Hertz Group Jota Porsche 963 LMDhs.
He’ll share the British group’s #38 Hypercar entry with fellow Briton Phil Hanson and Oliver Rasmussen.
“I am thrilled to racing with Hertz Group Jota within the 2024 WEC alongside my team-mates Oliver and Phil,” stated the 2009 world champion.
“Each have already got plenty of expertise in endurance racing and that’s key.
“Endurance racing is about teamwork and there’s no higher group than Hertz Group Jota to be taking over the massive producers in Hypercar.”
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#38 Hertz Group JOTA Porsche 963 : Antonio Felix Da Costa, Will Stevens, Yifei Ye
Button has been confirmed with Jota’s expanded Hypercar assault after a interval of intense hypothesis and subsequent affirmation from the group that it was in talks with him.
He made no secret of his want to race a prototype within the build-up to his sportscar return on the Le Mans 24 Hours this 12 months, when he piloted Hendrick Motorsport’s Storage 56 entry with a modified Chevrolet Camaro LS1 NASCAR Cup automotive.
He described the drive alongside Jimmie Johnson and Mike Rockenfeller as “a good way to get again to Le Mans”, a race which he beforehand contested in SMP Racing’s BR Engineering-AER BR1 in 2018.
“I want to race there in a Hypercar: I nonetheless have the starvation, I nonetheless have the health, the reactions and when you may have that, why not?” he stated.
The Briton subsequently made his race debut in a present technology prototype at October’s Petit Le Mans IMSA SportsCar Championship finale at Highway Atlanta, driving the JDC-Miller MotorSports Porsche 963.
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#40: Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti, Acura ARX-06, GTP: Jordan Taylor, Louis Deletraz, Colton Herta, Jenson Button
He’ll make his second IMSA begin on the subsequent month’s season-opening Daytona 24 Hours because the fourth driver in one in every of WTRAndretti’s Acura ARX-06 LMDhs forward of the beginning of his WEC marketing campaign in Qatar in the beginning of March.
Button has been touted as a part of a Jota ‘superteam’ through which he could be joined by fellow F1 champion Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica.
Negotiations between Vettel and Jota are understood to have damaged down, whereas Kubica will race the shopper Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar to be run by AF Corse as a satellite tv for pc entry to the 2 manufacturing unit vehicles.
WEC boss Frederic Lequien described the presence of Button on the grid subsequent 12 months as an “honour” for the collection.
The second Jota Porsche, #12, will raced by group common Will Stevens and new signings Callum Ilott and Norman Nato.
