Ferrara began his motorsport career in karting, winning the Italian Karting Championship in the 125 National class in 1996. He moved into single-seater racing and claimed the Italian Formula Renault Campus Championship in 2000. He then spent four seasons in Italian Formula Three, gradually improving from tenth place in 2001 to fourth in 2004 — recording his first win in the series that year — before taking the Italian Formula Three Championship outright in 2005 with three victories driving for Corbetta Competizioni. In 2007, he competed in the International Formula Master series.
In 2008, Ferrara moved into sports car competition and won the Porsche Carrera Cup Italy outright, taking three victories across the season. He followed that with a partial Porsche Supercup campaign in 2009, finishing fifteenth in the standings.
From 2010, Ferrara became a regular in the Superstars Series, the Italian-based multi-marque touring car championship. Driving a Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG for the CAAL team, he completed 20 races in 2010, collecting four wins and ten podiums — finishing second in the International standings and third in the Italian classification. In 2011 he continued with CAAL, recording one win and eight podiums across 18 races and again finishing second in the International standings and third in the Italian classification.
His 2012 campaign was partial — two rounds only, at Spa-Francorchamps with CAAL and at Pergusa with the Roma team — finishing 16th in the International standings across four races. He returned full-time in 2013 with Roma. He made further Superstars appearances in 2014 and 2015 before shifting his focus to the TCR category.
Ferrara entered the TCR International Series in 2016 driving a Subaru Impreza STi TCR for Top Run Motorsport and returned to the series in 2017. In 2018 he joined the newly-constituted FIA World Touring Car Cup with Team Mulsanne, driving an Alfa Romeo Giulietta TCR and finishing 29th in the standings.
Between 2019 and 2021, Ferrara competed in the EuroNASCAR PRO division of the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, racing for 42 Racing and later Shadow Racing Cars and extending his category range into stock car competition on European circuits.
Ferrara remained active in Italian domestic motorsport into the 2020s, competing in the Italian GT Championship in 2026 with Krypton by DL Racing. Over his career he has accumulated more than 266 race starts across multiple categories, with 29 wins, 88 podiums, and 20 pole positions.