Jenson Button

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jenson Button
Occupation	Race Car Driver
Date Of Birth	Jan 19, 1980(1980-01-19)
Age	44
Birthplace	Frome
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Capricorn

Jenson Button Biography

Jenson Button is one of the most popular and richest Race Car Driver who was born on January 19, 1980 in Frome, England, United Kingdom. British Formula One racing driver who was the 2009 Formula One World Champion. He signed with McLaren in 2010.

He joined Lewis Hamilton on McLaren in 2010.

Jenson Alexander Lyons Button MBE (born 19 January 1980) is a British racing driver and former Formula One driver. He won the 2009 Formula One World Championship, driving for Brawn GP. After his Formula One career, he became a champion of the Super GT Series in 2018, driving a Honda car for Team Kunimitsu.

Button enjoyed racing from an early age, racing a BMX bike with friends after school, and began watching Formula One motor racing with his father around the age of five or six. He idolised the four-time world champion Alain Prost for his calm personality and intellectual approach to driving. Button’s father gave him a 50cc bike for his seventh birthday; he discarded it after half an hour because of its lack of speed, which would have required his father to remove its restrictor, and he disliked the idea of his father that he progress to the 80cc category of bike. John later talked to the rallycross driver and Rippspeed car accessories owner Keith Ripp at a London car show about his son; Kipp recommenced the purchase of a go-kart suited for the Cadets class for eight to twelve year-old karters for the young boy. Button received the kart as a Christmas present in 1987 and he began karting at the Clay Pigeon Raceway at the age of eight.

He and his three sisters were raised by their mom in Frome, England after their parents divorced. He married Jessica Michibata in 2014. He was previously engaged to singer Louise Griffiths.

Jenson Button Net Worth

Jenson Button is one of the richest Race Car Driver from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jenson Button 's net worth $150 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He did not pass his first driving test on account of being too close to a parked car.

He began kart racing at the age of eight.

Button was born on 19 January 1980 in Frome, Somerset and brought up in nearby Vobster. He is the fourth child of the half-South African Simone Lyons and former Rallycross driver John Button from London’s East End, who was well known in the United Kingdom during most of the 1970s for his so-called Colorado Beetle Volkswagen. They met in Newquay at a young age and were reunited after a musical concert at Longleat. According to John, Jenson was named after his Danish friend and rallycross opponent Erling Jensen, changing the “e” to an “o” to differentiate it from Jensen Motors, while Simone recalls that she named him Jenson after noticing a Jensen sports car and thought the change of name would be “more mannish”. After his parents divorced when he was seven, he and his three elder sisters were brought up by their mother in Frome. Button was educated at Vallis First School, Selwood Middle School and Frome Community College. His karting career limited his studying and he left school with one GCSE. Button failed his first driving test for driving between two cars on a narrow road.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Jenson Button Dating?

According to our records, Jenson Button married to Jessica Michibata. As of December 1, 2023, Jenson Button’s is not dating anyone.

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Button made his endurance racing debut at the 1999 24 Hours of Spa with BMW Team Raffanelli. Sharing a BMW 320i E46 with David Saelens and Tomáš Enge in the SP class, the trio retired after 22 laps due to a fuel tank failure. He began discussions with SMP Racing to drive a BR Engineering BR1 car in the Le Mans Prototype 1 (LMP1) class alongside Vitaly Petrov and Mikhail Aleshin in April 2018. Button and SMP Racing concluded with an agreement that would see him drive the vast majority of the 2018–19 FIA World Endurance Championship. Making his FIA World Endurance Championship debut at the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans, electronic problems dropped the car down the order before the team retired with an engine failure late in the race with Button driving at the time. He took a fourth-place finish at the 6 Hours of Fuji and was third at the following 6 Hours of Shanghai, before missing the 1000 Miles of Sebring and 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps because he had Super GT commitments. Button also did not participate in the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans because his fiancée was due to give birth to their first child intermittently.

Facts & Trivia

Jenson Ranked on the list of most popular Race Car Driver. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Jenson Button celebrates birthday on January 19 of every year.

At the end of 1999, Button had his McLaren test prize at the Silverstone club circuit and impressed team owner Ron Dennis. He also tested for the Prost team because the team owner Alain Prost was impressed by Button’s ability and asked him to test at the Circuit de Catalunya. Prost subsequently invited Button and his management team to Paris in December 1999. Button was offered a drive in Formula 3000 with Prost before becoming his Formula One team’s test driver for one season to prepare for competitive driving. He did not commit because Prost had not prepared to fulfill the promise of a Formula One seat. Huysman and Robertson declined an offer for him to join the McLaren team after Dennis approached them and rejected a seat from Jaguar chairman Jackie Stewart.

How many grand prixs did Jenson Button win?

Though the he said he hoped to race until he was 70, it seemed likely the 21-race 2016 season was a farewell tour for Jenson Button, the 2009 champion whose record stood at 15 wins and 50 podiums in 305 Grands Prix.

Did Jenson Button drive for McLaren?

From an early age, McLaren driver Jenson Button showed the potential to realise his dream of driving in Formula 1 and one day becoming World Drivers’ Champion. Jenson began his racing career on the karting track, as the majority of drivers do, and achieved instant success.

Does Jenson Button still race?

Jenson Button has announced a full-time rallycross campaign for 2022-23 , as the 2009 Formula 1 world champion returns to racing in an all-electric off- road series.

Did Jenson Button win a championship?

2009 Formula 1 World Champion , Jenson Button, was one of the most popular drivers in the sport during his lengthy career at the pinnacle of motorsport. The British driver who won his famous title with Brawn GP, began his career in Formula 1 career in 2000 with Williams.

Who is the richest racing driver?

Lewis Hamilton Lewis Hamilton, with an estimated net value of $280 million, is right up there among the world’s richest auto racers in 2022. The British racing hero is one of the wealthiest sports figures in the country’s history and the highest-paid driver in Formula 1 history.