Nicolai Sylvest

Sylvest is the son of Jesper Sylvest, a former racing driver who won the 1999 Danish Touringcar Championship.^[1]

Sylvest made his full-time karting debut in 2009,^[2] a year in which he won the Danish Karting Championship in the Cadet class.^[3] After spending the next two years in KF3,^[4] Sylvest made his single-seater debut in 2012 by racing in various Formula Ford Championships around Europe.^[5] Mainly racing in the Danish championship, Sylvest scored five wins and 11 more podiums to clinch the title at season's end.^[6]

Having spent most of 2013 on the sidelines, Sylvest partook in a Formula 3 test at Lausitzring with JBR Motorsport & Engineering,^[7] before joining them to race in two of the final three rounds of that year's German Formula Three Championship.^[8] Racing at the Lausitzring and Hockenheimring rounds, Sylvest scored a best result of seventh in race two in the former.^[9] Remaining with the team for his first full season of German Formula Three the following year,^[10] Sylvest scored his maiden podium at Lausitzring,^[11] before taking his only win of the season four rounds later at the Nürburgring en route to a sixth-place points finish.^[12]

Sylvest switched to GT3 competition for 2015, joining Mercedes-fielding Rowe Racing to compete in all but one rounds of the Blancpain Endurance Series.^[13][14] In the midst of his only campaign in the series, in which he scored a lone point at Monza, Sylvest competed in two rounds of the FIA World Endurance Championship for Larbre Compétition in the LMGTE Am class.^[15][16] Racing at Fuji and Shanghai, Sylvest scored a best result of fourth in class in the former.^[17]

The following year, Sylvest joined Mercedes-fielding Zakspeed to make his ADAC GT Masters debut alongside Nikolaj Rogivue from the second round onwards.^[18] Racing in the final six rounds of the season, Sylvest scored his maiden podium by finishing third in race one at the Nürburgring,^[19] before ending the season with a third-place finish in race two at Hockenheimring to take 20th in the overall standings.^[20]

Remaining with Zakspeed for the following two years,^[21][22] Sylvest scored only two points in 2017 with a best result of ninth in Hockenheimring,^[23] whereas in 2018, he scored his third series podium at Sachsenring en route to a 21st-place points finish.^[24] For his fourth season in ADAC GT Masters, Sylvest switched to BMW-fielding MRS GT-Racing alongside Jens Klingmann.^[25] In their only full-time season together, the pair scored a lone win at the Red Bull Ring and ended the year 14th in points.^[26]

Switching to TCR competition for 2020, Sylvest joined LM Racing in the newly-established TCR Denmark alongside Jan Magnussen.^[27] In the season's first season, Sylvest took a lone win in the opening Jyllands-Ringen and scored four more podiums to finish third in the overall standings.^[28] During 2020, Sylvest also contested the opening round of ADAC GT Masters with MRS GT-Racing.^[29] Remaining with LM Racing for his sophomore season in TCR Denmark,^[30] Sylvest took four wins across the last two Jyllands-Ringen rounds to finish fourth in points, 23 behind teammate Jan Magnussen.^[31][32]

In 2022, Sylvest stayed in TCR Denmark for a third season, as he joined series newcomers Green Development.^[33] Sylvest began the season with a win at Ring Djursland,^[34] before taking a pair of wins at Copenhagen,^[35] and ending the season with two more wins at Jyllands-Ringen and Padborg Park to end the year third in points.^[36] Remaining with Green Development for a fourth season in TCR Denmark,^[37] Sylvest took wins at Ring Djursland and in Copenhagen to secure third in points for the second consecutive year.^[38][39]

After spending a season on the sidelines, Sylvest returned to racing by joining Birk Motorsport to race in Super GT Denmark.^[40] In his maiden season in the series, Sylvest won two races before leaving the team ahead of the fourth round.^[41][42]