🇨🇦 Jon Manship

Jon Manship is a semi-professional racing driver competing in national multiclass GT and sports car championships in North America. He holds an FIA Bronze grade, the amateur classification in sportscar racing. His primary ride is with Wright Motorsports, a competitive team fielding GT3 machinery in GT America's SRO3 class; he has also raced modified Porsche Cup cars in the Porsche Sprint Challenge and International GT series.[1]

Manship has nine starts in GT America across 2025 and 2026, his main focus at the semi-professional level. He has two wins and three podiums from 15 total starts spread across International GT, where he raced in 2022 and 2023, and the Porsche Sprint Challenge, where he made his most recent appearances. His most recent indexed campaign places him 14th in the Porsche Sprint Challenge championship standings.[2]

He races regularly against entry-level professionals and established competitors. Scott Blind, who won the 2025 Porsche Sprint Challenge championship in this driver's class, is a frequent opponent; Manship typically finishes behind him. Memo Gidley, the 2023 GT America SRO3 champion and an established professional, competes in the same field and has finished ahead of Manship in their meetings. Manship has beaten entry-level professionals including Tom Pank, a three-time International GT GT4.R champion, twice in their head-to-head encounters.