🇺🇸 Simon Mann

Simon Mann is a professional-level endurance racing driver competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA WeatherTech series for AF Corse, with a Racer Rating of 4,840 placing him among established professionals. The FIA grades him Silver, a classification for professional drivers typically early in their careers or still establishing themselves at the highest levels of sportscar racing. Across 70 starts since 2021, Mann has accumulated 4 wins and 8 podiums, distributed evenly between his two primary series; in 2026 his most recent activity shows him competing in WEC without wins or podiums through four rounds.[1]

Mann's competitive record places him alongside drivers rated between 4,000 and 5,100, chiefly the Silver-graded professionals he encounters across shared grids. His head-to-head record against his most frequent rivals is essentially even; against Charlie Eastwood, a Gold-graded driver rated 4,682, Mann finished ahead 23 times and behind 18 times across 41 shared races, while against Zacharie Robichon and Riccardo Pera, both higher-rated Silver professionals and former champions, his records read 19–18 and 17–17 respectively. He typically finishes eleventh on average across his classified races, which reflects competitive positioning in full professional fields rather than front-running status. Sporadically Mann has outpaced significantly stronger drivers, including Platinum-graded champions Scott McLaughlin and Laurens Vanthoor, but these remain isolated results rather than patterns of dominance over that level.[2]

Mann remains a mainstay at AF Corse, where he has made 34 of his 70 career starts. His career has been built entirely in endurance racing; he has not raced single-seaters or one-make championships at senior level, and his progression from the Italian GT Championship to WEC and IMSA reflects a committed path through long-distance sportscar racing as a full-time professional driver.