Jenson Button to generate in Excessive E for possess crew

Previous System 1 world winner Jenson Button will contend in the new Severe E racing series for his personal crew.

“I’ve followed Serious E with great desire – what they have managed to build is very little brief of extraordinary,” Briton Button said.

Severe E will be streamed on the BBC iPlayer, Pink Button and Sport web-site.

The new series, set to start off in April this year, will see a male and a female driver compete for each and every of the 10 teams in off-road electric powered ‘E-SUVs’.

Button’s woman driver in his JXBE staff is established to be announced in the coming weeks.

The sequence aims to elevate recognition in spots about the entire world affected by local weather alter and visit territories – arctic, desert, rainforest, glacier and coastal – which have been impacted, these as Greenland and Brazil’s Amazon region.

Button, who received the 2009 F1 globe championship for the Brawn crew, explained he was “both equally delighted and happy” to be part of the series.

“I caught the off-street bug a number of several years back and I certainly beloved it,” he extra.

Who else is concerned?

Button’s fellow Briton Hamilton recently introduced he will enter his X44 workforce into the activity, as has his previous Mercedes team-mate and title rival Nico Rosberg.

British feminine driver Jamie Chadwick has been chosen as the feminine driver for the British Veloce crew, who have F1 structure legendAdrian Newey as element of their established-up.

“On track I’m delighted to say there are some earth-course opponents to go wheel-to-wheel with,” added Button, who also drove for Williams, Benetton, Honda and McLaren in F1. “Intense E is a earth-to start with which sees genuine equality with male and feminine drivers equally as staff-mates and as opponents out on track.”