The six drivers who will pilot the two Cadillac V-Series.Rs in the Hypercar category of the World Endurance Championship in 2025 are officially known. As previously announced, the lucky winners are Earl Bamber, Alex Lynn, Will Stevens, the French Sébastien Bourdais and Norman Nato as well as the 2009 Formula 1 world champion, Jenson Button.
The association between the General Motors brand and the British team has thus drawn from both sides of this alliance, with three drivers already from Cadillac this season (Bamber, Bourdais, Lynn) and three others coming from Hertz Team JOTA ( Button, Nato, Stevens). The team of Sam Hignett and David Clark will retain the numbers 12 and 38 already used this season on the two customer Porsche 963s.
The exact composition of the two crews will be known later. The team will carry out a test run with a Dallara chassis next week in France, on the Anneau du Rhin.
First full season for Bourdais
For Sébastien Bourdais, this will be his very first full season in the World Endurance Championship in the premier category, he who only competed in two races in LM P1 in 2012 with Pescarolo Sport (Spa and Le Mans) before a season in LM P2 with Vector Sport in 2022.
« A new challenge, a new team and the recognition of being part of a new adventure, rejoices Sébastien Bourdais. JOTA has been a well-known and successful name in sports car racing in Europe for many years. Cadillac’s decision to enter two cars and partner with JOTA is a testament to the company’s commitment to endurance racing and its desire to succeed in the WEC. We will get to work quickly and there is continuity in the whole process. We showed speed this season, but we didn’t get the results we wanted, so we will work hard to get them. There’s a lot of crossover experiences with Jenson, Norman and Will. We will bring different experiences that will add to what they did with the Porsche to optimize the whole thing. »
« I am delighted to continue my adventure with Hertz Team JOTA as part of its new partnership with a brand as iconic as Cadillac, adds Jenson Button. Racing with JOTA this season has been a privilege, as they are a team that has had great success in endurance racing and that I have admired for a long time. These successes and hard work have culminated in this exciting new chapter which sees them partner with Cadillac, a brand that has already impressed with what it has achieved so far in both WEC and IMSA. The list of drivers is quite impressive. We bring our collective experience of working with the Cadillac platform and experience of working with JOTA. We have all the ingredients for a great season ahead. »
The new season of the World Endurance Championship will begin on February 28 with the 1812 km of Qatar, a few days after the traditional Prologue which will take place on February 21 and 22 on the same circuit.
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