Lorandi began competitive karting at age six near Lake Garda. His career in karts ran from 2007 through 2014 with the Babyrace Academy team. In 2013, his most decorated season, he won the KFJ CIK FIA World Junior Karting Championship in Bahrain, adding the WSK Super Master Series KF3 title and two consecutive ACI CSAI Junior Italian championships (2012 and 2013) to his record. During this period he raced regularly against and alongside drivers who subsequently reached Formula One, including Lando Norris, Charles Leclerc, and George Russell. He recorded a positive head-to-head record against Norris across their overlapping karting seasons.
In December 2013, Lorandi was awarded the Casco d'Oro by Autosprint, an Italian motorsport publication that gives the award to the season's outstanding kart driver.
In 2015, Lorandi made the transition directly from karting into the FIA Formula 3 European Championship with Van Amersfoort Racing. He was a teammate of Charles Leclerc that season and registered multiple top-ten finishes, including seventh place at the Macau Grand Prix as second-best rookie. The following year he switched to Carlin for the bulk of the campaign and claimed his maiden single-seater victory at the Pau Grand Prix, one of the most prestigious individual events on the Formula 3 calendar, held on narrow public streets in the Pyrenean foothills city of Pau. He also set one pole position and achieved a further podium finish that season.
Lorandi made his GP3 Series debut at the final two rounds of the 2016 season with Jenzer Motorsport, scoring a ninth-place finish at Sepang on debut. He returned to Jenzer for a full campaign in 2017 and ended the season as runner-up in the standings, accumulating 92 championship points across the year with one victory at Jerez and four podium finishes in total.
Lorandi's path into Formula 2 came through unusual circumstances. In July 2018, Santino Ferrucci was removed from Trident's Formula 2 programme after he deliberately drove into his own teammate, Arjun Maini, during the cool-down lap following the Silverstone round. Lorandi was called up as a four-race temporary replacement. When Trident subsequently terminated Ferrucci's contract entirely, Lorandi remained in the seat for the remainder of the 2018 season.
After his Formula 2 season, Lorandi competed briefly in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance series with GetSpeed in 2020. He subsequently focused his energy on driver coaching and team management. As co-founder of the BabyRace Driver Academy, the team under his direction amassed 29 WSK championship titles and 10 ACI CSAI titles in the five years following his retirement from professional competition, developing a series of young karting champions. He also founded Senndit, an online platform for karting coaching content. His younger brother Leonardo Lorandi is also a professional racing driver.
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