🇧🇪 Nicolas Baert

Nicolas Baert is an entry-level professional racing driver competing for Comtoyou Racing in endurance and touring car competition. He holds an FIA Silver rating, placing him among drivers developing toward full professional standing in sportscar racing. His primary series is GT World Challenge Europe, where he has driven shared Porsche entries in 42 starts since 2022.[1]

Across six seasons on record from 2020 to 2026, Baert has accumulated 60 starts and four podiums. His results come chiefly from GT World Challenge Europe, where he has taken two podiums over his four seasons; he has shared two further podiums in the international 24H Series endurance championship in 2020 and 2021. His 2025 campaign added 12 starts in DTM, the German single-driver touring car championship, running as a solo competitor for the first time at that volume. A brief three-round campaign in the FIA World Touring Car Cup in 2020 yielded no points, finishing 21st in the championship standings.[2]

In GT World Challenge Europe he races regularly against established professionals including Charles Weerts and Patric Niederhauser, multiple Platinum-graded champions; he typically finishes behind them. His most notable scalps include Edoardo Mortara, an elite professional and former Formula 3 Euro Series champion with 91 Formula E starts, and Maro Engel, a Platinum-graded driver and the 2024 GT World Challenge Europe champion. Baert remains a mid-grid presence in fields mixing amateurs with graded professionals.