WEC - Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA confirms 2025 WEC driver roster

Continuity and experience highlight Cadillac Racing’s driver roster for the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) season.

Cadillac Racing has doubled its factory program entries for its third season of Hypercar competition as JOTA Sport will run the Nos. 12 and 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R racecars for the eight-race global schedule.

Earl Bamber and Alex Lynn return as Cadillac Racing teammates for the third consecutive WEC season and fourth overall and will be joined by Sebastien Bourdais, who co-drove the Cadillac V-Series.R in three WEC races and the full IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship 2024 season in which he earned two victories and two pole starts.

Will Stevens, 2009 Formula One champion Jenson Button and Norman Nato return to the team that earned a historic victory at Spa-Francorchamps for a privateer and second successive FIA Hypercar Team World Cup Championship this past season.

Driver pairings will be announced at a later date. The team will conduct a shakedown of its Dallara chassis next week at the Anneau du Rhin circuit in France.

Cadillac Racing, which recorded a podium finish in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in its inaugural WEC season, added its maiden Hypercar pole start this past season at Fuji Speedway along with front-row starts at Le Mans and Spa-Francorchamps.

The 2025 WEC season begins Feb. 28 with the Qatar1812Km at the Lusail International Circuit, preceded Feb. 21-22 by the annual Prologue.

For more than a century, racing has provided a testbed for Cadillac to transfer knowledge and technology between racecars and production vehicles, as well as a way to build a fanbase for the brand around the world.

The Cadillac V-Series.R marks the third-generation Cadillac prototype racecar and the brand’s first hybrid electrified race car. Codeveloped by Cadillac Design, Cadillac Racing and chassis constructor Dallara, the racecar represents the start of the fifth generation of the V-Series, incorporating key Cadillac V-Series production car design elements such as vertical lighting and floating blades.

Hertz Team JOTA is one of the most experienced and successful sports car racing teams in recent history, having finished on the podium in LMP2 at Le Mans10 times, including second and third overall in 2017. Owned in part by affiliates of Knighthead Capital Management, LLC and sponsored by global car rental company Hertz and seven-time champion and entrepreneur Tom Brady, the England-based team entered the Hypercar class as a privateer in 2023. Hertz Team JOTA took a historic first victory for a private team in the Hypercar class at the TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps in May 2024.

Quote sheet

• John Roth, vice president, global Cadillac: “We look forward to a successful 2025 WEC season with our new roster of V-Series.R drivers. Racing provides an important testbed for Cadillac to transfer knowledge and technology between racecars and production Cadillacs, and our drivers are key to enabling this.”

• David Clark, director and co-founder, JOTA Sport: “It’s an honor for us to pair with such an iconic automotive manufacturer. When you consider our collective records in the FIA World Endurance Championship, it’s very fitting that for the inaugural Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA driver line-up we have such an impressive breadth of world championship winning talent and experience. Cadillac’s pedigree in motorsport speaks for itself, and with these six drivers we will be in a strong position to challenge for race wins. Under the careful watch of ACO (Automobile Club de l’Ouest) President Pierre Fillon, WEC continues to go from strength to strength, and with more eyes than ever before on our races, and some incredible talent behind the wheel, we have no doubt that we’ll put on a good show next season.”

• Earl Bamber: “Joining JOTA is going to be a great step for the Cadillac project. They have really proven what they can do with the Porsche and just early interactions with the team have been positive. With me doing both WEC and IMSA, hopefully we can accelerate their learning process because we were quick with Chip Ganassi Racing the last few races of the ’24 season and hopefully we can transfer knowledge from that project and continue our strong showing at the end of the year and taking their knowledge from their project and combining all that into winning races in WEC in 2025. The continuity of Alex, Seb and myself having driven the cars for a couple of years in IMSA and WEC will really lead to a formidable lineup.”

• Jenson Button ⬆️ : “I’m delighted to be continuing my journey with Hertz Team JOTA as they form their new partnership with such an iconic brand as Cadillac. Racing with JOTA this season has been such a privilege as they’re a team steeped in success in endurance racing and an operation I’ve long admired. Those achievements and hard work have now led to this exciting next chapter seeing them partner with Cadillac, a marque which has already impressed with what it has achieved to date in both WEC and IMSA. The driver lineup is pretty impressive. We bring our collective experience of working with the Cadillac platform and the experience of working with JOTA together. We have all the ingredients for a great season ahead.”

• Sebastien Bourdais: “A new challenge, a new team and thankful to be part of a new adventure. JOTA has been a well-known and successful name in sports car racing in Europe for many years. The push that Cadillac is making with two cars and going with JOTA shows the commitment to endurance racing and being successful in WEC. We’re going to get to work quickly and there’s a continuity in the whole process. For me, it's a known quantity with the car and the GM people, so it’s cool to be able to continue there. Hopefully, we’ll get a few things going our way quickly. We showed speed this season but not the results we wished we would have, so I’ll be working hard to get those. There are a lot of cross-experiences. It’s pretty much integrated with JOTA with one crew that stays in the team with Jenson, Will and Norman and the Cadillac known quantities coming to the JOTA organization. We’ll be bringing different experiences to pair with what they’ve done with the Porsche to optimize the package.”

• Alex Lynn: “I’m so happy to be joining this strong team and continuing my relationship in the Cadillac V-Series.R. It feels right. We’ve seen so much and lived so many moments with this car already and have so many great memories. I’m motivated to continue the success story and bring back the victories.”

• Norman Nato ⬆️ : “I’m delighted to be staying with JOTA, especially as they embark on this new journey partnering with such an iconic manufacturer as Cadillac. I can’t wait to get this new chapter started. It’s a new project, a new car and an exciting new pairing which will help us to achieve our goals as a team. We had some great moments this season and I’ve been very impressed with the team spirit and ingenuity shown by JOTA. Now with Cadillac on board, we can continue to build on our successes from this year and I’m feeling really positive and excited about what we can achieve together in the future. I have new teammates with a lot of experience and success in their career and I’m looking forward to pushing together to challenge Le Mans and contend for championships.”

• Will Stevens ⬆️ : “I’ve made no secret of my intention to be with JOTA for the long haul and to do this with Cadillac makes it even more special. I’m proud to be part of JOTA’s journey over the years. We’ve gone from LMP2 through to Hypercar and now we’re moving onto a manufacturer program and to have been with the team from the start is a great feeling. The longevity of my relationship with JOTA has resulted in a strong relationship. I know the team so well and they know me. This definitely helps us from a performance perspective. JOTA and Cadillac are a great match, and I feel like we have all the ingredients to be successful next season and ultimately challenge for race wins.”