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Why Button didn’t carry on with WEC after 2018 outings

Jota Cadillac driver Jenson Button has explained why he didn’t continue in the World Endurance Championship back when he first raced there.

Button entered his maiden endurance race at the 2018 Le Mans 24 Hours, when an electronics issue struck his SMP Racing-entered BR Engineering BR1 early in the race. Button and team-mates Mikhail Aleshin and Vitaly Petrov spent most of the contest some 50 laps down.

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