Jenson Button Net Worth and Biography

Jenson Button is a British racing Driver, with an estimated net worth of $150 Million. He won the 2009 Formula One World Championship when he drove for the Brawn GP team. After his F1 career, he became champion of the 2018 season of the Super GT Series alongside Naoki Yamamoto, with whom he shared a Honda racing car at Team Kunimitsu.

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Biography

Jenson Button was born on 19 January 1980 in Frome, Somerset, England. He is the fourth child of Simone Lyons and former rallycross driver John Button from London’s East End. He was educated at Vallis First School, Selwood Middle School, and Frome Community College.

Button enjoyed racing from an early age, racing a BMX bike with friends after school, and began watching Formula One (F1) motor racing with his father around the age of five or six. He idolized four-time world champion, Alain Prost, for his calm personality and intellectual approach to driving.

Button began karting at the Clay Pigeon Raceway in May 1988 aged eight. His karting career limited his studying and he left school with one GCSE. In 1989, aged nine, Button won the British Super Prix. He also won all 34 races of the 1991 British Cadet Kart Championship and the title with team Wright karts.

He won the British Open Kart Championship three times and became the youngest runner-up of the Formula A World Championship at age 15. Button also won the Ayrton Senna Memorial Cup for finishing second in the 1997 Japanese World Cup and became the youngest driver and first Briton to claim the European Super A Championship.

Career

Following Button’s early success,  driving Karts, he progressed to the British Formula Ford Championship and the British Formula 3 Championship. He first drove in F1 with Williams for the 2000 season. The following year he switched to Benetton, which at the start of the 2002 season became the Renault team, and then for the 2003 season, he moved to BAR.

He finished third in the 2004 World Drivers’ Championship, before falling to ninth in the 2005 championship. BAR was subsequently renamed and became the Honda team for the 2006 season, during which Button won his first Grand Prix at the Hungarian Grand Prix, after 113 races.

Following the withdrawal of Honda from the sport in December 2008, Button was left without a team for the 2009 season. In February 2009, Ross Brawn led a management buyout of Honda, creating Brawn GP and recruiting Button as a driver. Button went on to win a record-equalling six of the first seven races of the 2009 season, securing the World Drivers’ Championship at the Brazilian Grand Prix, having led on points all season; his success also helped Brawn GP to secure the World Constructors’ Championship.

At the start of the 2010 season, he moved to McLaren, partnering with fellow British racer Lewis Hamilton. After finishing fifth for the team in 2010, Button ended the 2011 season as runner-up, before falling to fifth in the 2012 championship. Four more seasons with McLaren resulted in no further victories and he retired from Formula One at the end of 2016, making a one-off return at the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix to deputize for Fernando Alonso.

Honors and Awards

Jenson Button is a recipient of numerous awards and accolades, thanks to his contribution to Motorsports. He won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Newcomer Award in the year 2000 and the Lorenzo Bandini Trophy in 2001.  He also won the Hawthorn Memorial Trophy as the most successful British or Commonwealth driver in a season five times: from 2004 to 2006, 2009, and 2011.

Button was voted the Autosport Rookie of the Year in 2000, the International Racing Driver Award in 2004 and 2009, and the British Competition Driver of the Year in 2003, 2009, 2011, and 2012. He won the BBC West Country’s Sports Personality of the Year and the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year award in 2009.

Button won the BRDC Gold Star in 2004 and 2009 and was inducted into the FIA Hall of Fame in 2017. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to motorsport. He also received an honorary doctorate in engineering from the University of Bath in December 2016.

Jenson Button Net Worth

Jenson Button is one of the richest Car racers in the world, with an estimated net worth of $150 Million. According to reports, he was earning $16.5 Million annually, prior to his retirement from Formula One in 2016. He was one of the world’s top-earning drivers in motorsports between June 2012 and June 2013.

Like many Drivers in Formula One Championship, Button had multiple endorsements and sponsorship from several brands and multinational companies. The BBC signed him to promote its BBCi digital television interactive service from December 2003 to January 2004.

He is a brand ambassador for Head & Shoulders and appeared in advertising campaigns for the company. Other companies that Button has done business with are Hilton, Hugo Boss, Santander Bank, Tag Heuer, Vodafone, and Baylis & Harding

He and multi-sport brand Dare 2b collaborated on a men’s ski range of clothing and accessories called AW20 in 2020. Button worked with car builder Ant Anstead, designer Mark Stubbs, and business adviser Roger Behle to relaunch luxury coach maker Radford in early 2021.