🇭🇰 Nikolaus Mayr-Melnhof

Nikolaus Mayr-Melnhof is a professional endurance racing driver, rating 4,258, who competed in multiclass GT3 endurance racing across two series. He raced for Phoenix Racing in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie from 2014 to 2016, driving an SP 9 class GT3 car, and made a single start in IMSA WeatherTech in 2015 for Muehlner Motorsports America.[1]

Across both series, Mayr-Melnhof logged four starts over three seasons. His last indexed activity came in the 2016 Nürburgring season, where he finished 36th in the championship standings. In his career he finished ahead of established professionals Brendon Hartley, a multiple-time WEC champion with 89 starts in that series, and Kevin Estre, the 2024 WEC HYPERCAR champion with 65 WEC entries and 30 IMSA starts. Against Henry Walkenhorst, a regular opponent in the Nürburgring series and a Bronze-graded professional, he typically finished ahead.[2]

Mayr-Melnhof raced in fields that mixed amateur and professional entrants across a fifteen-class multiclass grid at the Nürburgring. His results place him mid-field within those fields, where his occasional finishes ahead of much more experienced drivers were notable given the scale of their racing elsewhere, though his small number of starts kept him from establishing a sustained pattern against that level of competition.