“I want to be in one of them!” That was Jenson Button’s thought at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2023 as he thundered down the Mulsanne Straight and held on for dear life through the Porsche Curves aboard the Garage 56 Chevrolet Camaro LS1 NASCAR Cup Car. And by “one of them”, he meant one of the cars from the Hypercar class that kept buzzing past in the battle for overall victory last June. The 2009 Formula 1 world champion has got his desire for this year as part of his first full season of racing since 2019 by taking on the World Endurance Championship with the Jota Porsche team.
“I always loved Le Mans and going there again in a relaxed way was super-cool,” says the Briton. He enjoyed what was his second outing at the 24 Hours aboard the Hendrick Motorsports-run Camaro, but driving the car that filled the grid spot reserved for an innovative machine left him wanting more. It fired his aspirations to go back in something that was “fighting for the win”.
In fact, Button was talking about that in the build-up
