Jenson Button Net Worth 2026: $150M Fortune From F1, Sky TV and Property

Jenson Button’s net worth is about $150 million, according to a widely reported GQ estimate that put his fortune at around £117 million in its ranking of the richest F1 drivers (reported by Crash.net in August 2025). The last time the Sunday Times Rich List valued him, in 2017, it put his wealth at £86 million, fourth among all British sports stars.

Jenson Button: quick facts

Net worth

$150 Million

Source of wealth

F1 salaries, TV, property

Profession

Retired racing driver, Sky Sports F1 pundit, Aston Martin F1 team ambassador

Nationality

British

Place of birth

Frome, Somerset, England

Date of birth

January 19, 1980 (age 46)

Button won the 2009 Formula 1 world title with Brawn GP, a team that had been rescued from closure only months earlier. He raced in F1 for 17 seasons, from 2000 to 2016, and made one last start at Monaco in 2017. He won 15 Grands Prix and stood on the podium 50 times.

Most of his money came from F1 salaries, especially his seven years at McLaren. Since leaving F1 he has earned from Sky Sports punditry, sports car racing, ambassador roles with Williams and now Aston Martin, and a string of property deals in California.

Jenson Button at a glance

• Net worth: about $150 million (widely reported GQ estimate, 2025)
• Born: January 19, 1980, in Frome, Somerset, England
• Profession: retired racing driver, Sky Sports F1 pundit, Aston Martin F1 team ambassador
• F1 teams: Williams, Benetton, Renault, BAR, Honda, Brawn GP, McLaren
• Biggest payday: about €16 million (about $21.9 million) from McLaren in 2013, according to the Business Book GP
• Titles: 2009 F1 world champion; 2018 Super GT GT500 champion in Japan
• F1 record: 306 starts, 15 wins, 8 poles, 50 podiums
• Spouse: Brittny Ward (married March 2022); two children

His net worth over time is charted at the end of this article.

Where Jenson Button’s money comes from

Source	Details	Estimate
F1 salaries	Pay from seven teams over 17 seasons, peaking at McLaren	The bulk of his fortune; well over $100 million in total is likely, though no full figure is published
Bonuses and sponsors	Win bonuses and personal deals during his racing years	Not disclosed
TV work	Sky Sports F1 pundit and commentator	Not disclosed
Post-F1 racing	Super GT, WEC, NASCAR and Le Mans drives	Not disclosed
Ambassador roles	Williams senior advisor (2021–2025), Aston Martin team ambassador (from 2026)	Not disclosed
Real estate	Homes bought, renovated and sold in Los Angeles and Palm Springs	Sales worth tens of millions of dollars
Businesses	Rocket RJN race team, Radford Motors (co-founder)	Mixed results; Radford’s parent firm entered Chapter 11 in 2024

F1 salary by era

F1 teams do not publish driver pay, so the figures below come from industry salary lists and press reports. They usually cover basic salary only.

Year	Team	Reported pay	Source
2005	BAR	Paid Williams a reported $30 million to cancel a contract and stay at BAR	GrandPrix.com estimate (Sept. 2005); terms were never published
2009	Brawn GP	$5 million basic salary after a big pay cut	Tom Rubython salary list, via Crash.net (Oct. 2009)
2013	McLaren	€16 million (about $21.9 million)	Business Book GP, via CNBC (May 2014)
2015	McLaren-Honda	About £6 million	Sky Sports (Sept. 2015)
2016	McLaren-Honda	About £12 million (about $12–13 million)	Sky Sports (Sept. 2015); GrandPrix247 (Apr. 2016)

Button’s pay swung a lot. In 2009, the year he won the title, the same salary list put Kimi Räikkönen top at about $45 million, nine times Button’s basic pay. His best-paid years came after the title, when McLaren was paying him like a world champion.

Early life

Jenson Alexander Lyons Button was born on January 19, 1980, in Frome, Somerset, and grew up nearby. His father, John Button, was a former rallycross driver. His parents divorced when he was seven, and he was raised mainly by his mother, Simone, with his three older sisters.

He started karting at eight at Clay Pigeon Raceway. In 1991 he won all 34 races of the British Cadet Kart Championship. In 1997 he became the youngest winner, and the first Briton, of the European Super A karting title.

He moved into cars in 1998 and won the British Formula Ford Championship and the Formula Ford Festival. In 1999 he finished third in British Formula 3 as the top rookie and won the Autosport BRDC Award, which came with a McLaren test.

F1 debut and the early years (2000–2005)

Williams gave Button his F1 debut in 2000, when he was 20. He finished sixth in Brazil, becoming the youngest driver at the time to score a point, and ended the year eighth.

The next two years were harder. He had a difficult 2001 at Benetton (two points), then rebuilt his reputation at Renault in 2002 with seventh in the standings. In 2003 he joined BAR, and in 2004 he finished third in the championship with ten podiums and his first pole position.

That success led to two contract fights. In 2004 he tried to return to Williams, but the Contract Recognition Board ruled he had to stay at BAR. In 2005 he signed again for Williams for 2006, then changed his mind and paid to be released. Williams confirmed only a “financial settlement”; GrandPrix.com estimated it at about $30 million.

Honda, Brawn GP and the 2009 title

Honda took full control of BAR for 2006. That August, Button won the Hungarian Grand Prix from 14th on the grid for his first F1 victory. Honda’s cars then fell away badly, and he scored only six points in 2007 and three in 2008.

In December 2008 Honda quit F1. Team boss Ross Brawn led a buyout, and the team became Brawn GP. Button took a large pay cut to help it survive. It paid off: he won six of the first seven races of 2009 and clinched the world title in Brazil, while Brawn also won the constructors’ title.

Mercedes bought the team for 2010 and signed Michael Schumacher for his comeback. Button, the new champion, moved to McLaren instead.

The McLaren years (2010–2017)

At McLaren Button joined Lewis Hamilton, forming an all-British line-up of world champions. He won in Australia and China in 2010 and finished fifth.

His best McLaren season was 2011. He won in Canada (a famous comeback from last place in a rain-soaked race), Hungary and Japan, and finished runner-up to Sebastian Vettel. He added three more wins in 2012, including the season finale in Brazil. That was his last F1 victory.

McLaren’s form dropped after 2012, and the Honda engine partnership from 2015 struggled. Button’s team-mate in 2015 and 2016 was Fernando Alonso, reportedly on about twice his salary. Button stepped away from racing at the end of 2016 but came back for one race, the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix, standing in for Alonso, who was racing in the Indianapolis 500.

Career totals

• 306 Grand Prix starts (2000–2017)
• 15 wins: one in 2006, six in 2009, two in 2010, three in 2011, three in 2012
• 50 podiums and 8 pole positions
• 1 world title (2009)

After F1: racing on (2018–2025)

Button did not stop driving. In 2018 he joined Team Kunimitsu in Japan’s Super GT series and won the GT500 title with Naoki Yamamoto in his rookie season. He also raced for SMP Racing in the World Endurance Championship (WEC) in 2018–2019.

He drove off-road trucks in the Baja 1000 and Mint 400 in 2019, made his historic racing debut at the Goodwood Revival in 2021, and in 2023 raced three NASCAR Cup Series events for Rick Ware Racing. That year he also drove the NASCAR-based Garage 56 Camaro at Le Mans with Jimmie Johnson and Mike Rockenfeller.

His last full-time drive was in the WEC Hypercar class with Team Jota: a Porsche in 2024 and a Cadillac in 2025, when he took a career-best second place at the 6 Hours of São Paulo. He retired from professional racing after the 8 Hours of Bahrain in November 2025, saying he no longer had time to prepare properly while raising a young family.

TV career and ambassador roles

Button is a regular pundit on Sky Sports F1 coverage. With his racing career over, he has said he expects to do more TV work.

In January 2021 he rejoined Williams as a senior advisor on a multi-year deal, later in an ambassador role. On February 2, 2026, Aston Martin announced Button as its team ambassador on a multi-year deal, covering media, partner and commercial work. The move also reconnected him with Honda, which supplies Aston Martin’s engines from 2026. The value of these deals has not been disclosed.

Business ventures

Button has put money into several motorsport businesses since retiring from F1.

• Jenson Team Rocket RJN: a race team he co-founded with childhood friend Chris Buncombe and Bob Neville’s RJN Motorsport. It raced a McLaren 720S GT3 in British GT in 2020. The “Rocket” name comes from his late father’s karting team.
• JBXE: his team in the Extreme E electric off-road series, launched in 2021. He raced one round himself before handing the seat to Kevin Hansen.
• Radford Motors: Button co-founded a revival of the old British coachbuilder Radford with TV car builder Ant Anstead around 2021. Its Lotus-based Type 62-2 sold in a Track Edition for about $1 million each, with only 12 built. In October 2024 The Drive reported that its parent company, Finest Coachbuilding, was going through Chapter 11 restructuring and looking for new investors. Button’s own stake and any losses are not public.

He has also written books, including his autobiography Life to the Limit (2017).

Real estate

Button lived in Monaco for much of his F1 career and bought a home in Guernsey in 2010. After he moved to Los Angeles with Brittny Ward, the couple became regular buyers and sellers of homes in Southern California, often renovating them first.

Property	Year	Reported price
House in The Forest, Guernsey (bought)	2010	Not disclosed
Six-bedroom Bel Air mansion (sold)	2020	$11.9 million (first asked $14 million)
Hillside home off Mulholland Highway, between Malibu and Calabasas (bought)	2021	About $3.7 million; later listed for just under $8 million
Spanish Revival bungalow, Santa Monica (bought)	2022	$5.8 million
Palm Springs rental villa, “The Mesa Bungalows” (listed)	2020s	About $2.3 million asking

Robb Report said a group of homes the couple bought, renovated and sold in Palm Springs and Santa Monica brought in a combined $11.4 million. Exact profits are not public.

Personal life

Button was married to Japanese model Jessica Michibata from 2014 to 2015. He got engaged to American model Brittny Ward in Malibu in 2018, and they married on March 12, 2022, in Palm Desert, California.

The couple have two children: son Hendrix and daughter Lenny, born in December 2020. The family lives in the Los Angeles area.

His father, John, who was a constant presence in the F1 paddock, died in January 2014. Button’s wedding party wore pink as a tribute to him, because John wore a pink shirt for luck at races.

Philanthropy

The Jenson Button Trust raises money for children’s and other charities. Its best-known event was the Jenson Button Trust Triathlon, which Button often raced himself. The 2013 event raised more than £30,000, and the trust later partnered with the children’s charity Barnardo’s.

How Jenson Button compares

Driver	Estimated net worth	Main source
Lewis Hamilton	About $586 million (£435 million)	F1 salary, endorsements, business
Fernando Alonso	About $260 million (widely reported)	F1 salary since 2001
Jenson Button	About $150 million (widely reported)	F1 salary, TV, property
Sebastian Vettel	About $143 million (widely reported)	F1 salary at Red Bull and Ferrari
David Coulthard	About $80 million	F1 salary, TV, business

Hamilton’s figure is from the Sunday Times Rich List (May 2026). Button’s and Vettel’s are GQ estimates (2024–2025), Alonso’s is a widely reported 2026 estimate, and David Coulthard‘s comes from the Sunday Times sport rich list (2011). See the full ranking of the richest F1 drivers, or browse more athlete net worths.

How his fortune has grown

• 2014: £63 million, second among British sports stars behind Hamilton (Sunday Times Rich List)
• 2017: £86 million, up £9 million in a year, fourth among British sports stars (Sunday Times Rich List)
• 2025: about £117 million, or roughly $150 million (GQ estimate)

Frequently asked questions

How much is Jenson Button worth?

About $150 million (around £117 million), according to a widely reported GQ estimate from 2025. The Sunday Times Rich List valued him at £86 million in 2017.

How much did Jenson Button earn in F1?

No full total is published. Reported salaries range from $5 million in his 2009 title year to about €16 million at McLaren in 2013.

Did Jenson Button take a pay cut to win the title?

Yes. When Honda quit F1 and the team became Brawn GP, he took a large pay cut. His 2009 basic salary was reported at about $5 million.

What does Jenson Button do now?

He is a Sky Sports F1 pundit and, since February 2026, an ambassador for the Aston Martin F1 team. He retired from professional racing in November 2025.

Who is Jenson Button married to?

American model Brittny Ward. They married in March 2022 and have two children, Hendrix and Lenny.

Is Jenson Button richer than David Coulthard?

Yes, by most estimates. Button is put at about $150 million, while Coulthard’s last Sunday Times valuation was about $80 million.

Sources: GQ (via Crash.net, August 2025), Sunday Times Rich List (2014, 2017), Crash.net, CNBC, Sky Sports, GrandPrix.com, GrandPrix247, Formula1.com, PlanetF1, The Drive, Motor Sport, Robb Report, Domain, Hello!, Wikipedia. All net worth figures are estimates.