He previously competed in the FIA GT1 World Championship for Vita4one Racing[1] Born into the family that once belonged to an important Austrian nobility, Nikolaus is the youngest son of Count Franz Karl von Goëss, Freiherr Mayr von Melnhof-Saurau (b.

[4] In 2010 he contested the first half of the FIA GT3 European Championship season, driving a Team S-Berg BMW Alpina B6 GT3 alongside Martin Matzke, the pair claiming a fourth place finish in the second race at Brno.

Later that year he made his FIA GT1 World Championship debut at the Algarve round, driving a Maserati MC12 for the Hegersport team alongside Alessandro Pier Guidi.

In 2011 Mayr-Melnhof took part in the full FIA GT3 European Championship in a Reiter Engineering Lamborghini Gallardo as teammate to Albert von Thurn und Taxis.

The pair finished eighth in the standings, with race wins at Navarra and Paul Ricard.