Manson will join Tim Macrow Racing in the Motorsport Australia AU4 Championship.
Manson will head to Australia off the back of dominating the New Zealand Formula Ford Championship.
He won 11 of the 15 races this season in his rookie campaign.
With the title, Manson earned an all expenses paid three-day test with Rodin at its test track in a McLaren GT4 as well as Formula 3 and Formula 4 machinery.
“I’m going to do the F4 in Australia this year, which starts in early May. I’m quite excited,” said Manson on The Inside Line with MotorSport New Zealand.
“It’s going to be run by Mark Pilcher from M2 and Tim Macrow Racing, so it’ll be quite a good team.”
Manson said his primary objective is to reach Formula 1, and identified Max Verstappen and Liam Lawson among his idols.
Manson comes from a racing family. His older brother raced in the Formula Regional Oceania Trophy while his father Luke Manson raced in the GT New Zealand Championship.
“I’ve had a lot of help from having an older brother,” said the 15-year-old.
“He’s taught me and helped with all the equipment to be really good.
“I’ve found it semi-natural, and I’ve always been quite good I think.”
The teenager said making the adjustment from karts to cars hasn’t been as hard as some might think.
“I was always good in the wet in go karts. When I hoped into cars, my first couple of days I was quite fast compared to most other people’s first days in a car,” he explained.
“That was quite a cool thing. I hoped into my first race meeting and got podiums at every round. That was pretty cool.
“I know a lot of people think it, but I didn’t find it too hard to get into a formula car. I’ve driven an 86 a few times and I find sitting on one side it a bit odd. I don’t find it in a formula car too hard.”
The five-round Motorsport Australia AU4 Championship begins at Winton Motor Raceway on May 1-3. Sydney Motorsport Park will host round two later that month on May 30-31.
The series will have back-to-back events at The Bend on July 17-19 and August 21-13 on the West Circuit and International Circuit respectively.
The season will conclude at Sydney Motorsport Park on September 11-13.
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