Malthe Jakobsen was crowned Danish Formula 4 champion in the Jyllandsringen season finale in October 2019, and represented Denmark in the F4 segment of the inaugural Motorsport Games in November 2019.The teenager was a champion in junior karts in his home country, and finished 22nd in the CIK-FIA World Karting championship in 2017 before transitioning to single-seaters and participating in Danish and South East Asian F4 championships in 2019.