🇨🇦 Samantha Tan

Samantha Tan is an entry-level professional, FIA Bronze-graded, racing in multiclass endurance competition where cars are shared between two or more drivers across most of her career. She drives for ST Racing, the team she co-owns with her father Kenneth, and has also raced for Ferrari of Tampa Bay, Team WRT, Bulldog Racing and Car #158 in various endurance and one-make outings. Her main program has been GT3 and GT4 machinery in GT World Challenge America, where she won the 2024 Pro-Am championship with ST Racing.[1]

That GT World Challenge America record, 25 starts with ST Racing across 2023 and 2024, is the core of her career: five wins and fifteen podiums before she stepped up to IMSA's VP Racing SportsCar Challenge in 2025 and the Pilot Challenge in 2026, both still with ST Racing or its satellite outfit. Alongside that she has built a parallel endurance résumé: three wins in the 24H Series, two wins in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie with Car #158, a win on her Ferrari Challenge debut, and a podium in her lone Nürburgring 24 Hours start with Bulldog Racing. Her most recent indexed outing was the 2025 Road to Le Mans with Team WRT, two rounds into that program.[2]

Her most frequent rivals in GT World Challenge America show both ends of her level: she runs closely matched with Robby Foley, FIA Gold and the 2025 GT World Challenge America Pro-Am champion, and she usually finishes ahead of Kyle Washington, an entry-level professional like herself. Against stronger opposition she has beaten Lucas Auer, FIA Platinum and the 2024 GT World Challenge Europe champion, twice, and Jordan Pepper, an established FIA Gold professional, once. Her main team, ST Racing, has fielded a roster that includes Neil Verhagen, an established professional, and her own results sit within that company.