Frederik
Vesti

Frederik Vesti comes from Denmark and was born on 13 January 2002. He began karting in 2012 and won the Danish KFJ championship in 2014. In 2016 he raced in Danish Formula Ford and finished fourth. In 2017 he was runner-up in the Danish Formula 4 championship and seventh in the German series, where he took a win. In 2018 he finished fourth in German Formula 4 with Van Amersfoort Racing and won two races.

In 2019 he won the inaugural Formula Regional European Championship with Prema, taking 13 victories and 467 points. In FIA Formula 3 he finished fourth in both 2020, with Prema, and 2021, with ART Grand Prix, winning four races in total. In Formula 2 he was ninth in 2022 with ART and won at Baku. In 2023 he drove for Prema and was runner-up, eleven points behind Théo Pourchaire. He won six races that year, more than any other driver.

In January 2021 Mercedes took him into its junior programme. He drove at the Abu Dhabi young driver test in 2022 and took part in free practice at the 2023 Mexico City and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix. From 2024 he was Mercedes reserve driver, and in 2026 he became the team's third driver. He has not started a Formula One race.

In 2024 he turned to sportscars, finishing ninth in the LMP2 class of the European Le Mans Series. At the 24 Hours of Le Mans he finished tenth in LMP2 with Cool Racing. In 2025 he drove for Cadillac in the endurance rounds of the IMSA SportsCar Championship, winning at Indianapolis alongside Jack Aitken. He also tried Formula E cars at rookie tests in Berlin with Mahindra in 2024 and Andretti in 2025.

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