Vesti's father Peter runs Vesti El Biler, a car sales company. Vesti took up competitive karting in 2012 at the age of ten, winning the Danish KFJ championship in 2014. He entered the 2015 CIK-FIA World Karting Championship, where he placed 69th, and that same year won the WSK Final Cup. He continued karting through 2015 before moving to circuit racing.
In 2016 Vesti made his car-racing debut in Danish Formula Ford, finishing fourth in the championship. The following season he competed simultaneously in ADAC Formula 4, where he finished seventh with one win, and Danish Formula 4, where he took second in the championship with eight victories driving for Vesti Motorsport, his family's team. In 2018 he moved to Van Amersfoort Racing in ADAC F4, finishing fourth with two wins, and also contested part of the Italian Formula 4 season, winning two of the three rounds he entered. He made his Macau Grand Prix debut that year, finishing fifteenth.
Vesti joined Prema Powerteam for the inaugural 2019 Formula Regional European Championship and dominated the series, scoring 13 victories and 20 podiums across the season for a total of 467 points — 131 points clear of runner-up Enzo Fittipaldi. He stepped up to FIA Formula 3 with Prema Racing in 2020, partnering Oscar Piastri and Logan Sargeant, and finished fourth in the championship with three wins at Spielberg, Monza, and Mugello. He continued in FIA F3 with ART Grand Prix in 2021, again finishing fourth. He holds the record for most points scored across two FIA F3 seasons, accumulating 284.5 points in total. In January 2021, Mercedes announced that Vesti had joined the Mercedes-AMG Petronas junior programme.
Vesti moved to FIA Formula 2 with ART Grand Prix in 2022, claiming one win at the Baku sprint race, one pole position, and five podiums over the season for ninth in the championship. He drove 124 laps at the Abu Dhabi young drivers' test in the Mercedes W13 at the end of the year. For 2023 he joined Prema Racing, producing the most impressive Formula 2 campaign of his career: six wins, ten podiums, and one pole position for 192 points. He won more races than any other driver that season but missed the title by 11 points to Théo Pourchaire. He drove FP1 sessions for Mercedes at the 2023 Mexico City Grand Prix, covering 26 laps, and at the 2023 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Vesti made his sportscar debut in the 2024 European Le Mans Series, racing in LMP2 alongside Ferdinand Habsburg and Alejandro García, finishing ninth in class with two podiums. He drove the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Cool Racing in the same year, completing the race in tenth place in the LMP2 class after a radiator problem. He also started the 2024 24 Hours of Spa but retired.
For 2025, Vesti joined the Cadillac Whelen IMSA programme alongside Earl Bamber and Jack Aitken in the GTP class. He won the Indianapolis round and Petit Le Mans outright and the team finished second in the standings, also claiming the Michelin Endurance Cup. He also drove FP1 at the 2025 Bahrain Grand Prix for Mercedes, finishing 18th fastest, and completed 145 laps in the Mercedes W16 at the Abu Dhabi young drivers' test.
Vesti was elevated to Mercedes' third driver role for 2026, replacing Valtteri Bottas. He continued his IMSA campaign with Cadillac Whelen alongside the Formula One duties, recording a second at the Daytona 24 Hours, fourth at Sebring, and second at Long Beach. He also completed Formula E rookie tests in Berlin — for Mahindra in 2024 and for Andretti in 2025.
Vesti lives in Oxford. Williams considered him for a race seat ahead of the 2024 season before retaining Logan Sargeant.
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