Last Updated: December 16, 2023, 10:49 IST
Jenson Button contested 306 F1 races throughout his 18-yr profession. (AFP Photo)
The British driver retired from Formula 1 in 2016, having contested 306 F1 races throughout his 18-yr profession. He gained the world title in 2009.
Former Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button will drive a Jota Porsche 963 in the World Endurance Championship subsequent yr.
Button, 43, is about to race in the world’s prime hypercar class, which incorporates the well-known Le Mans 24 Hours race.
”I’m nonetheless on the prime of my recreation. I’ve received a cross from my spouse,” Button instructed the BBC, including that the equipment is ”extra technologically superior than F1 vehicles.”
”In F1 vehicles, the expertise is thru the roof and it’s the head of aerodynamic design, and so they’re the most effective groups in the world. But they aren’t as technologically superior because the hypercars.”
”There’s so much to study, it’s an incredible quantity of jaw-dropping stuff that takes some time to get used to,” he added.
”It’s very intelligent, however very complicated, and it requires a distinct kind of driver: you want to be expert on the monitor, but in addition be an engineering knowledgeable.”
The British driver retired from Formula 1 in 2016, having contested 306 F1 races throughout his 18-yr profession. He gained the world title in 2009.
”Hypercars are the best-trying vehicles ever,” Button mentioned. ”If I drew a automotive after I was a child it will have been a hypercar.
”I used to a watch Le Mans in the Nineteen Eighties. That crew environment may be very completely different to F1, the place crew mates are the primary individual you’ve received beat; in endurance racing you’re employed with crew mates to develop the automotive to win races.”
