Jenson Button has joined Aston Martin’s Formula 1 team as an ambassador, a role he previously held at Williams.
Unlike with Williams, which Button worked with as a special advisor then ambassador from 2021 to 2025, the 2009 world champion never drove for Aston Martin’s F1 teams in any of its previous guises.
He was closely associated with Aston Martin’s new works engine partner Honda in the middle and at the end of his F1 career, though, including a stint as team-mates with current Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso.
Button joined Honda-powered BAR in 2003 and scored his first grand prix victory in 2006 when that morphed into the Honda works team.
His world championship winning 2009 season would have been with Honda had the manufacturer not withdrawn from F1 and forced the team to continue as Brawn GP as a Mercedes engine customer.
Button was then reunited with Honda for the final two full years of his F1 career when, alongside Alonso, he endured its extremely difficult and unsuccessful reunion with McLaren in 2015 and 2016 before retiring.
His final F1 start came as an Alonso substitute at the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix, in the final year of the McLaren-Honda alliance, then Button reunited with Honda in Japan and won the 2018 Super GT title.
Aston Martin said that Button’s new role as team ambassador is a multi-year agreement and that his and Honda’s “enduring partnership has been a defining thread throughout many of his significant career achievements”.
Button, who will support Aston Martins media, partner and commercial programmes, said: “Honda’s new works partnership with the team was a huge draw and I look forward to bringing my years of experience working with them to my new role as ambassador.
“The 2026 season is going to be fascinating and being part of such an ambitious team is a real opportunity.”
