Liberati began karting in 2006 in the Italian 100 Junior Championship, finishing as runner-up the following year. In the same season he also placed second in the Lazio Regional Championship.
In 2008 Liberati moved into single-seaters in the Formula Azzurra series — the series now known as the Italian Formula 4 Championship. He won the title in his first year at age 15, taking victories at Magione and Misano and adding five further podium finishes, winning by 12 points from Greek driver Stefanos Kamitsakis.
In 2009 Liberati stepped up to the Italian Formula Three Championship with the BVM-Target Racing team, alongside Daniel Zampieri. He contested the opening four rounds before transferring to Lucidi Motors to replace fellow Italian Marco Zipoli, who in turn took his seat at BVM-Target. Liberati scored points on five occasions, finishing 13th in the standings and fourth in the rookie classification.
He returned to the series in 2010 with the Prema Junior squad alongside Andrea Caldarelli and Samuele Buttarelli, taking two podium finishes — at Vallelunga and Monza — to finish ninth in the championship, edging Gabriel Chaves on countback despite finishing level on points. Liberati raced a third consecutive season in Italian Formula Three in 2011 with Team Ghinzani, and in that year recorded two wins and three pole positions while not taking the title due to setbacks in the final rounds.
Unable to fund a full GP3 season after his Formula Three campaigns, Liberati switched to GT3 racing in 2012, contesting the Italian GT Championship alongside Michela Cerruti. He won his first GT race in his maiden season. Over the next two years he also competed in Porsche Carrera Cup Italy.
In 2014 Liberati began coaching a Chinese driver in Formula Renault. That connection led to an invitation to race Lamborghini Super Trofeo in Asia in 2015, where the pair won the championship. The result brought a factory-supported Lamborghini GT Asia Series drive in 2016 with FFF Racing with ACM, and Liberati won the GT Asia Series title that year — the last champion in the AFOS format of the championship.
From 2018 he raced in Asia with the KCMG team, initially in the Blancpain GT Asia Series in a Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 alongside Florian Strauss. Their season produced three podiums — at Suzuka, Fuji Speedway, and another circuit — and sixth in the overall standings. He also made appearances at the Suzuka 10 Hours for KCMG in 2018 and 2019 as part of the Intercontinental GT Challenge, alongside Alexandre Imperatori and Oliver Jarvis in the latter year.
In 2022 Liberati and Yuki Nemoto, driving a Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo for VSR, won the Italian Gran Turismo Endurance Championship. The title was decided at Monza in difficult conditions, with the two arriving at the final round holding a single-point advantage over VSR teammates Benjamin Hites, Mattia Michelotto, and Karol Basz. Nemoto drove a recovery stint compensating for back problems that had caused Liberati to lose positions from a pole start in the early stages. The title was settled when Basz was forced to retire with a mechanical problem while following the Liberati/Nemoto car. The pair went on to win the race and secure the championship.
Alongside his driving career, Liberati built an extensive record as a driver coach. He oversaw the KCMG Driver Development Project for several years. In March 2022 he joined JAS Motorsport as Driver Development Programme Co-ordinator and Head Driver Coach, taking over from Marco Bonanomi to mentor young Honda-affiliated drivers competing in TCR and GT3 machinery. He has also worked with the ACI's young driver scheme.
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