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The 43-year-old will be making his return to a full season of racing for the first time since his 2019 campaign in the Super GT Series with the Kunimitsu Honda team. In 2024, he will be driving one of the pair of Hertz Team Jota Porsche 963 LMDhs, as part of the #38 Hypercar entry along with fellow Briton Phil Hanson and Oliver Rasmussen.
Button expressed his excitement, saying, “I’m thrilled to be racing with Hertz Team Jota in the 2024 WEC alongside my team-mates Oliver and Phil. Both already have a lot of experience in endurance racing and that is key. Endurance racing is about teamwork and there is no better team than Hertz Team Jota to be taking on the big manufacturers in Hypercar.”
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#38 Hertz Team JOTA Porsche 963 : Antonio Felix Da Costa, Will Stevens, Yifei Ye
Button has been confirmed with Jota’s expanded Hypercar attack after a period of intense speculation and subsequent confirmation from the team that it was in talks with him. He made no secret of his desire to race a prototype in the build-up to his sportscar return at the Le Mans 24 Hours this year, when he piloted Hendrick Motorsport’s Garage 56 entry with a modified Chevrolet Camaro LS1 NASCAR Cup car. The Briton subsequently made his race debut in a current generation prototype at October’s Petit Le Mans IMSA SportsCar Championship finale at Road 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 will make his second IMSA start at the next month’s season-opening Daytona 24 Hours as the fourth driver in one of WTR Andretti’s Acura ARX-06 LMDhs ahead of the start of his WEC campaign in Qatar at the start of March.
Button has been touted as part of a Jota ‘superteam’ in which he would be joined by fellow F1 champion Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica, further solidifying his dedicated commitment to returning to the sport at the highest level. WEC boss Frederic Lequien described the presence of Button on the grid next year as an honor for the series.
The second Jota Porsche, #12, will be raced by team regular Will Stevens and new signings Callum Ilott and Norman Nato.