Jenson Button will remain in Jota's British World Endurance Championship squad after he steps as much as the Cadillac factory ranks next season.
The 2009 Formula 1 world champion will join Jota from Porsche to Cadillac to drive one in every of the 2 V-Series LMDhs that the team will field within the Hypercar class.
A second full season within the WEC for 44-year-old Button was confirmed on Thursday when the total driver line-up was announced for the Cadillac Hertz Team Jota entries.
Will Stevens and Norman Nato joined Button within the transition from Jota's two-car lineup of Porsche 963 LMDh.
Earl Bamber and Alex Lynn will proceed with Cadillac at Jota within the WEC after two years racing within the General Motors solo hypercar race run by Chip Ganassi Racing
Sebastien Bourdais also moves from Ganassi, with whom he has been an everyday within the IMSA SportsCar Championship throughout the season since 2022, after interrupting his IndyCar profession.
Cadillac Racing driver lineup
Photo: Richard Prince
He is changing up the series, racing alongside Bamber and Lynn within the WEC rounds in Qatar and Bahrain in the beginning and end of this 12 months's campaign.
It can be the Frenchman's first full-time program outside North America since his season and a half in F1 with Toro Rosso in 2008-09.
Bourdais is not going to remain a Cadillac driver in IMSA's GTP class next 12 months, but will remain within the series after signing a take care of Tower Motorsport to race within the LMP2 division.
Cadillac and Jota haven’t yet revealed the motive force mixtures for the 2 WEC entries, which can retain the #12 and #38 race numbers from the Porsche program.
Bamber may also run for Cadillac in next 12 months's IMSA races with Action Express Racing, however the Jota program is anticipated to take priority in May's start of races at Spa and Laguna Seca and the 24 Hours of Le Mans if the American team has a 3rd consecutive 12 months competes within the WEC double points round.
Button was widely expected to stay at Jota after revealing in the beginning of the season that he viewed his time at Hypercar as a two-year enterprise.
But he declined to substantiate his plans or whether he would proceed pursuing the prosecution ahead of Thursday's announcement.
Button said: “I’m delighted to proceed my journey with Hertz Team Jota while partnering with such an iconic brand as Cadillac.
“It has been a terrific privilege to race with Jota this season as they’re a successful endurance team, which I even have long admired.
“These achievements and exertions have now led to a different exciting chapter as we partner with Cadillac, a brand that has already made an impression based on what it has achieved up to now in each WEC and IMSA.
#38 Hertz Team Jota Porsche 963: Jenson Button, Philip Hanson, Oliver Rasmussen
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“The driver line-up is impressive: we mix our joint experience of working with the Cadillac platform and our experience of working with Jota.
“We have all the ingredients for a great season ahead.”
Jota director David Clark said: “Cadillac's motorsport pedigree speaks for itself, and with these six drivers we will be in a strong position to challenge for race victories.”
Bourdais, 45, said he's “grateful to be a part of this new adventure,” adding: “It's a known number for both the car and the people at GM, so it's nice to be able to continue this adventure.”
Stevens, who won the No. 12 Jota Porsche in May's WEC round at Spa, continues the partnership that began in 2016.
The Briton has been a everlasting member of the team since winning the WEC P2 crown in 2022, saying: “I even have made no secret of my intention to stick with Jota for the long haul, and to do it with Cadillac makes it much more special. “
Cadillac is stepping up its attack on the WEC this season, under a brand new rule requiring two cars to be entered by manufacturer teams competing in Hypercar.
Ganassi will field only one automotive within the WEC in 2023 and 2024: his two-car IMSA attack in 2022 with the DPi-VR Daytona Prototype International was effectively split in half in the beginning of the Hypercar era, with one automotive racing within the World Championship and one in North America.
In March, it unilaterally announced that its relationship with Cadillac would end with the conclusion of this 12 months's WEC and IMSA campaigns.
Ganassi led Bamber and Lynn as a duo within the WEC six-hour races this 12 months, but Jota was all the time going to follow three drivers when moving to Cadillac.
Team principal Sam Hignett stressed the importance of racing with the identical line-up as at Le Mans in all WEC events.
Next week, Jota will take off the VR Series chassis on the Anneau du Rhin circuit near the German border in northern France.
