Lorenzo Patrese

Lorenzo Patrese is an Italian racing driver and horse rider, currently competing in the GT World Challenge Europe with Tresor Attempto Racing. He participated in the 2021 and 2020 Italian F4 Championship.

Racing career

Karting

Patrese debuted in karts in 2016, when he was eleven, and started making experience in lower karting categories. In 2017, he placed second in the EasyKart Trophy Italy and third in the international final. In 2018, he entered in the X30 Italian Championship obtaining pole positions, podiums and the eighth place in the final championship standing. In 2019 he participated in the Skusa Winter Cup in Florida obtaining a tenth place in the final. He also participated in the CIK-FIA Karting European Championship and the Karting World Championship always qualifying for the final. In 2020, he participated in the European and World championship again, obtaining finals and one group pole position, which put him second overall.

Formula 4

In 2020, Patrese debuted in single seaters with AKM Motorsport, taking part in the races of Mugello and Monza of the 2020 Italian F4 Championship.
In 2021, he entered the championship with AKM Motorsport once again. He finished the season as third in the Rookies' championship and 12th in the overall Drivers' championship. In the final round of the season he secured all three overall pole positions.

Italian GT Championship

Patrese was signed to participate in the first round of the 2022 Italian GT Championship in Pergusa, but the car was retired at the start of qualifying.

GT World Challenge Europe

Endurance Cup

After a GT winter test in Valencia, Tresor Team Principal entered Patrese in the 2022 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup to participate in the five rounds of the Championship with an Audi R8 LMS. He started the season with a silver Pole Position in Qualifying 1 in Imola, and in the event of Paul Ricard, he completed his first double stint. He became the youngest ever participant at the 24 hours of Spa at the age of sixteen years and eleven months.
In 2023, Patrese joined Tresor Attempto Racing to compete in his second season of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup with Alex Aka and Pietro Delli Guanti being his teammates.

Sprint Cup

Patrese was called to substitute Luca Ghiotto in the Misano round of the 2022 GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup. He qualified fourth overall in Qualifying 1 and in the race he was sitting in fifth overall before a technical failure.
In 2023, Patrese competed in his first full season of the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup with Tresor Attempto Racing and Alex Aka as his teammate. The pair would become vice-champions in the Silver Cup.

Show jumping career

In addition to his motorsport career, Patrese has always ridden horses for passion and show jumping was his main profession before starting his motorsport career.
In 2017 and 2018, Patrese went around Europe competing for the Italian junior horse riding National Team, competing in many Nations Cup and winning in Austria.
In 2018, Patrese took part in the European FEI Championship in Fontainebleau, France. He has lead of the FISE computer list for the Children category for one year in 2018.
In 2022, the main events Patrese participated in were test events for the junior category in Gorla and Cattolica, CSIO in Gorla Minore, where he obtained one victory, CSIO in Lamprechtshausen, Austria, the Italian championships in Arezzo, where he placed himself in the top-20 and Regional Cup in Fieracavalli Verona, where he won the individual 130cm category.

Personal life

Patrese currently studies International Business studies at H-Farm College in Venice. He is the son of Formula 1 driver Riccardo Patrese, who raced in Formula One from 1977 to 1993, and Francesca Accordi. Lorenzo speaks fluent Italian, English and Spanish.