The 43-year-old will undertake a full season of racing for the first time since his winning assault on the Super GT Series with the Kunimitsu Honda team in 2018 in one of the pair of Hertz Team Jota Porsche 963 LMDhs.
He will share the British team’s #38 Hypercar entry with fellow Briton Phil Hanson and Oliver Rasmussen.
“I’m thrilled to racing with Hertz Team Jota in the 2024 WEC alongside my team-mates Oliver and Phil,” said the 2009 world champion.
“Both already have a lot of experience in endurance racing and that is key.
“Endurance racing is about teamwork and there is no better team than Hertz Team Jota to be taking on the big manufacturers in Hypercar.”
Button has been confirmed with Jota’s expanded Hypercar attack after a period of intense speculation and subsequent confirmation from the team that it was in talks with him.
He made no secret of his desire to race a prototype in the build-up to his sportscar return at the Le Mans 24 Hours this year, when he piloted Hendrick Motorsport’s Garage 56 entry with a modified Chevrolet Camaro LS1 NASCAR Cup car.
He described the drive alongside Jimmie Johnson and Mike Rockenfeller as “a great way to get back to Le Mans”, a race which he previously contested in SMP Racing’s BR Engineering-AER BR1 in 2018.
“I would like to race there in a Hypercar: I still have the hunger, I still have the fitness, the reactions and when you have that, why not?” he said.
Source: Autosport