🇺🇸 Pippa Mann

Pippa Mann is a professional-level endurance racing driver competing in International GT and long-distance sportscar events. Her Racer Rating of 2,804 places her in the competitive amateur band, a tier that typically encompasses the front of club racing; however, her FIA Silver categorisation reflects her status as a professional-level driver in sportscar and endurance racing, where she competes regularly against full professionals. Across 98 starts since 2005, she has secured 4 wins and 16 podiums, with her strongest recent period coming in International GT from 2022 onwards, where she has recorded 3 wins and 12 podiums in 22 starts. Her average finishing position of P13.9 across classified results indicates consistent mid-field performance in highly competitive fields.[1]

Mann's career has spanned multiple categories. Early single-seater campaigns in Formula Renault Eurocup and Formula V8 3.5 yielded no wins or podiums against that level of opposition. She stepped up to IndyCar between 2011 and 2019 without securing a podium, though her 19 starts showed persistence in one of professional racing's top categories. In parallel, she contested Indy NXT in 2010 for Sam Schmidt Motorsports, scoring one win and two podiums in 12 starts. Her head-to-head record against stronger rivals reveals the gulf in her competitiveness; she finished behind Charlie Kimball 29 times to 7 ahead, Bertrand Baguette 28 times to 4, and Filipe Albuquerque 27 times to 1 across shared races. A single podium finish ahead of Fernando Alonso in one race stands as a notable exception but does not reflect a pattern of beating drivers of that calibre.[2]

In recent years Mann has found her niche in International GT and endurance racing, where she has performed at a more consistent level relative to her peers in that discipline. Her podium appearances in the Nürburgring 24 Hours in 2022 and 2026 further reflect her capacity at the professional endurance level. As of 2026, she remains active in both International GT and the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, combining her racing commitments with advocacy for women in motorsport through the Shift Up Now initiative.