Current Cadillac World Endurance Championship driver and 2009 Formula 1 world ꦓchampion Jenson Button admits this season is “likel🍒y my last full year of racing”.

The 45-year-old retired from F1 at the end of the 2016 season but remained 🏅active in motorsport, competing full campaigns in Japan’s Super GT series in 2018 and 2019, as well as a part-WEC p🍌rogramme in the 2018-2019 'superseason' in the LMP2 class.

He also made one-o♏ff DTM, British GT, Extreme E, NASCAR Cup Series and 🐽IMSA SportsCar Championship outings.

After a return to Le Mans in 2023 in the Hendꦕri෴ck Motorsport NASCAR Garage 56 entry, Button contested his first full campaign in racing since 2019 last year in WEC with the Jota team.

Ru🐓nning a customer Porsche 963, Button managed a best result of sixth in the 6 Hours ꦜof Fuji and was ninth in the car he shared with Phil Hanson and Oliver Rasmussen at Le Mans.

Remaining with Jota for the 2025 season as it switched to Cadillac machin💦ery, the 38 car dr🐬iven by Button, Earl Bamber and Sebastien Bourdais comes to Le Mans off the back of a season-best sixth at Spa last month.

But with five rounds left in the WEC, including Le Mans, Button tells th🐻at 2025 will li🎐kely be his last as a full-time racer.

“I love endurance raciꦦng. I’ve alway🃏s taken a shine to it through my racing career in F1,” he said on Wednesday at Le Mans ahead of opening practice and qualifying for the 2025 edition of the enduro.

“Then I didn’t really get the opportun💯ity, then COVID hit, I missed quite a few years of racing.

“I said ‘you know what, I’m in my mid-40s and it’s time to s🌼ee if I’ve still got it, but also go racing at Le Man❀s’.

“But to do it with a team like Jota, Sam [Hignett, team owner] an🌜d DC [David Clark] are friꦿends of mine. It just works.

“This will probably be my last full year of racing. I’ve got so many things going on, and I kind of need to grꩵow up!

“I love racing, always will, but I’ve got so many opportunities in motorsport and outside of it that it’s difficult to bala♏nce.

“I’ve got a family. That’s the difficult bit. Thi♓s year I am away a lot from the family. I don’t want to miss too much of my kids growing up.

“Next year I will still race but it will definitely be [scaled back] and for fun. In my 60s and 70s I will still be racing but i👍t won’t be at Le Mans.”

Button looking to fix Cadillac braking as Le Mans begins on Wednesday

Cadillac sat at the fringes of the top 10 at the end of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:the official test day at Le Mans last Sunday, but tღhere🦩 is reasonable confidence within the camp of a podium challenge in the race.

Button reckons Ferrari and Toyota “have a good advantage” coming into Wednesday’s running, but is confident in Cadillac’s ability 🍰to “maximise everything we have” eveꦫn if he feels work needs to be done to improve braking.

“I think 𒉰the car is relatively quick,” Button said.

“After practice, the Toyotas and Ferraris have✱ a good advantage. But it’s also a⛎ 24-hour race, so we do the best with what we have and you see where you end up.

“It’s about not making mistakes, doing a great job wi🌸th strategy, and fee♑dback so that every driver gets the most out of the car. If we can do that, who knows where we will end up.

He added: “Braking is a big thing🍌 for us. If you can’t get braking right, you position the car poorly at the apex and 🐲you can’t get a good exit.

“We know what we need to do. And we’veꦦ done it. We have the data.”