The Latest Breaking News from Tijmen van der Helm

The Swiss driver has lapped a hypercar and frequents a Formula E car, but experience is only part of preparation for racing on the world's bumpiest track

New Porsche factory driver Nico Muller will make his sportscar debut with the German marque at this weekend’s Sebring 12 Hours round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship. 

Button made his series debut in a Porsche 963 as the extra driver in JDC-Miller MotorSports’ line up at Road Atlanta, and finished fifth alongside Mike Rockenfeller – his Garage 56 Le Mans team-mate – and youngster Tijmen van der Helm.

One of his choices is understood to be racing a second Jota Porsche 963 in WEC competition in 2024, with Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica also in the frame for drives at the Hertz-backed team.

The 2009 Formula 1 world champion will join regular drivers Tijmen van der Helm and Mike Rockenfeller for the 10-hour Road Atlanta endurance event.

It means the 2009 Formula 1 world champion will team up once more, this time at IMSA's season-closing Road Atlanta endurance event, with his Garage 56 NASCAR Le Mans project team-mate Mike Rockenfeller, against whom he raced in NASCAR Cup at Indianapolis last weekend.

Drama began even before the 160-minute race got underway, with the pole-sitting #31 Action Express Cadillac forced to start from the back after an incident for Alexander Sims in warmup.

Veteran sportscar star Mike Rockenfeller and his teenaged team-mate Tijmen van der Helm steered the 963 to seventh in the IMSA SportsCar Championship’s fourth round, having been forced to miss the opening three races due to supply chain issues that delayed the build of Porsche’s customer chassis.

Cadillac became the first manufacturer to win twice in IMSA's new GTP era, as the Ganassi squad followed up Action Express's victory after late carnage at Sebring by just 3.8s over the second of the Porsche Penske Motorsports 963s that started on the front row in the hands of Mathieu…