🏳️ Jon Stroup

Jon Stroup is a developing amateur racer competing in NASA's Spec E30 class, a spec-chassis championship for BMW E30 3-series cars run across a multiclass grid that mixes amateurs, semi-professionals and graded professionals in the same races. He has completed five seasons in the series from 2021 to 2025, accumulating 69 starts.[1]

In the 2025 season, his most recent campaign, Stroup finished 34th in the championship standings after 13 rounds. His record across five years shows him closely matched against fellow club-level regular Lee Winters and typically finishing behind Greg Tresan, another regular in the class who has more than doubled Stroup's experience in the series. He has occasional results against stronger opposition; he has beaten entry-level professional Mario Hernandez once and semi-professional Robert Grace, who brings 204 NASA starts to the grid, once.[2]

Stroup races in a field defined by consistency rather than star power. Most drivers in Spec E30 are club-level or developing amateurs like himself, with occasional semi-professionals. The strongest regular in his class is Sean Quinlan, an entry-level professional who has driven for the same team across many starts; Stroup typically races well behind such drivers.