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 System 1 world champion defined that the complexities concerned in driving a WEC Hypercar class entry imply he has little 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 yr in one in every of Jota’s buyer Porsches and segued into its manufacturing unit programme with Cadillac for 2025.
“It is advisable to have learnt what is occurring with the automotive, the techniques. Each time I get within the automotive there’s something totally different and new studying once more.
“While you leap in if you find yourself 44 years of age, it positively takes you longer than if you find yourself in your 20s.”
#38 Cadillac Hertz Staff Jota Cadillac V-Collection.R: Earl Bamber, Sebastien Bourdais, Jenson Button
Photograph by: FIAWEC – DPPI
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 via 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 further might be historic racing.
“I like historics for some motive; it’s my age clearly,” he mentioned.
Button has a rising fleet of historic racing automobiles: 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.
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 instructed {that a} return to the NASCAR Cup sequence, wherein he contested one highway course and one avenue course occasion with the Rick Ware Racing Ford group in 2023, isn’t out of the query.
“NASCAR may 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 leap in and really feel what the automotive is doing: you don’t have all of the techniques, so it quite a bit simpler.”
