Editing Jenson Button (section)

{{short description|British racing driver (born 1980)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Jenson Button
| honorific_suffix   = {{postnom|country=GBR|size=100%|MBE}}
| image              = Jenson Button 2024 WEC Fuji.jpg
| caption            = Button at the [[2024 6 Hours of Fuji]]
| birth_name         = Jenson Alexander Lyons Button
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1980|1|19|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Frome]], Somerset, England
| spouse             = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Jessica Michibata]]|2014|2015|end=div}}
* {{marriage|[[Brittny Ward]]|2022}}
}}
| partners           = [[Louise Griffiths]] (2000–2005)
| children           = 2
| module             = {{Infobox F1 driver|embed=yes
| nationality      = {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Formula One drivers from the United Kingdom|British]]
| Years            = {{F1|2000}}–{{F1|2017}}
| Teams            = [[Williams Grand Prix Engineering|Williams]], [[Benetton Formula|Benetton]], [[Renault in Formula One|Renault]], [[British American Racing|BAR]], [[Honda in Formula One|Honda]], [[Brawn GP|Brawn]], [[McLaren]]
| Races            = 309 (306 starts)
| Championships    = 1 ({{F1|2009}})
| car_number       = 22
| Wins             = 15
| Podiums          = 50
| Points           = 1235
| Poles            = 8
| Fastest laps     = 8
| First race       = {{F1GP||2000 Australian}}
| First win        = {{F1GP||2006 Hungarian}}
| Last win         = {{F1GP||2012 Brazilian}}
| Last race        = {{F1GP||2017 Monaco}}
}}
| module2            = {{Infobox racing driver|embed=yes
| racing licence   = [[File:FIA Platinum Driver.png|12px]] [[FIA Platinum Categorisation|FIA Platinum]]
| current series   = [[FIA World Endurance Championship]]
| first year       = [[2018–19 FIA World Endurance Championship|2018–19]]
| current team     = [[Jota Sport|Cadillac Hertz Team Jota]]
| former teams     = [[SMP Racing|SMP]]
| starts           = 15 <!--correct as of Spa 2025-->
| championships    = 0
| wins             = 0
| podiums          = 1
| poles            = 0
| fastest laps     = 0
| best finish      = 15th
| year             = [[2018–19 FIA World Endurance Championship|2018–19]] <small>([[Le Mans Prototype|LMP1]])</small>
}}
| module3            = {{Infobox racing driver|embed=yes
| last series      = [[Super GT]] career
| years active     = [[2017 Super GT Series|2017]]–[[2019 Super GT Series|2019]]
| teams            = [[Mugen Motorsports|Mugen]], [[Team Kunimitsu|Kunimitsu]]
| starts           = 17
| championships    = 1 ([[2018 Super GT Series|2018]])
| wins             = 1
| podiums          = 6
| poles            = 1
| fastest laps     = 0
| best finish      = 1st
| year             = [[2018 Super GT Series|2018]] <small>([[Super GT#GT500|GT500]])</small>
}}
| module4            = {{Infobox NASCAR driver|embed=yes
| Total_Cup_Races   = 3
| Years_In_Cup      = 1
| Cup_Car_Team      = No. 15 ([[Rick Ware Racing]])
| First_Cup_Race    = [[2023 NASCAR Cup Series|2023]] [[2023 EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix|EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix]] ([[Circuit of the Americas|Texas]])
| Last_Cup_Race     = [[2023 NASCAR Cup Series|2023]] [[2023 Verizon 200 at the Brickyard|Verizon 200 at the Brickyard]] ([[Indianapolis Motor Speedway|Indianapolis]])
| Cup_Wins          = 0
| Cup_Top_Tens      = 0
| Cup_Poles         = 0
}}
}}

'''Jenson Alexander Lyons Button''' (born 19 January 1980) is a British [[racing driver]], who competes in the [[FIA World Endurance Championship]] for [[Jota Sport|Jota]]. Button competed in [[Formula One]] from {{F1|2000}} to {{F1|2017}}, and won the [[World Drivers' Championship]] in {{F1|2009}} with [[Brawn GP|Brawn]]; he won 15 [[Formula One Grands Prix|Grands Prix]] across 18 seasons.

Button began karting at the age of eight and achieved early success, before progressing to car racing in the [[British Formula Ford Championship]] and the [[British Formula 3 International Series|British Formula 3 Championship]]. He first drove in F1 with [[Williams Grand Prix Engineering|Williams]] for the [[2000 Formula One World Championship|2000 season]]. The following year he switched to [[Benetton Formula|Benetton]], which at the start of the [[2002 Formula One World Championship|2002 season]] became the [[Renault in Formula One|Renault team]], and then for the [[2003 Formula One World Championship|2003 season]] he moved to [[British American Racing|BAR]]. He finished third in the [[2004 Formula One World Championship|2004 World Drivers' Championship]], before falling to ninth in the [[2005 Formula One World Championship|2005 championship]]. BAR was subsequently renamed and became the [[Honda in Formula One|Honda team]] for the [[2006 Formula One World Championship|2006 season]], during which Button won his first Grand Prix at the {{F1 GP|2006|Hungarian}}, 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 [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|World Drivers' Championship]] at the {{F1GP|2009|Brazilian}}, having led on points all season; his success also helped Brawn GP to secure the [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|World Constructors' Championship]].

At the start of the [[2010 Formula One World Championship|2010 season]], he moved to [[McLaren]], partnering fellow British racer [[Lewis Hamilton]]. After finishing fifth for the team in 2010, Button ended the [[2011 Formula One World Championship|2011 season]] as runner-up, before falling to fifth in the [[2012 Formula One World Championship|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 {{F1GP||2017 Monaco}} to deputise for [[Fernando Alonso]]. From the 306 races that Button started, he won 15, qualified on [[pole position]] 8 times, took 50 podium finishes and scored 1,235 [[List of Formula One World Championship points scoring systems|championship points]].

After his F1 career, he became champion of the [[2018 Super GT Series|2018 season]] of the [[Super GT|Super GT Series]] alongside [[Naoki Yamamoto (racing driver)|Naoki Yamamoto]], with whom he shared a [[Honda in motorsport|Honda racing]] car at [[Team Kunimitsu]]. He also competed part-time in the [[NASCAR Cup Series]], driving the No. 15 [[Ford Mustang]] for [[Rick Ware Racing]] with support from [[Stewart–Haas Racing]] and sponsorship from [[Mobil 1]].