Alatalo's karting career ran from approximately 2010 to 2017, with national championship wins in three different classes. He also contested international events including the CIK-FIA European Championship in both KFJ (2015) and OKJ (2016) classes, as well as the CIK-FIA World Championship in both years. His best CIK-FIA European Championship result in OKJ was 27th in 2016, racing for RB Racing.
Alatalo made his single-seater debut in 2017 in the Formula STCC Nordic series with Kart in Club Driving Academy. He won one race at Anderstorp and finished the season fifth with 142 points in thirteen starts. He also contested the Formula 4 UAE Championship in the 2017–18 winter season with Mücke Motorsport, finishing ninth with 104 points.
Alatalo spent two full seasons in the Italian F4 Championship with BWT Mücke Motorsport. In 2018 he took one win — at Monza — alongside a second-place finish, ending the year eighth in the standings with 108 points from 21 races. His 2019 season produced two fastest laps but no wins in 21 starts, with 118 points and ninth in the championship. He made a brief three-race appearance in the 2019 ADAC Formula 4 Championship for ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg, scoring two podiums at the Red Bull Ring. At the 2019 FIA Motorsport Games he represented Finland in the Formula 4 Cup, finishing third.
Alatalo moved to the Formula Renault Eurocup in 2020 with JD Motorsport. He secured one pole position at Imola and two podiums across twenty races, finishing eighth in the standings with 92 points.
In 2021 Alatalo joined Arden Motorsport in the Formula Regional European Championship, partnering Alex Quinn and Nicola Marinangeli. He finished every race of the season, with a best result of third place at Circuit Paul Ricard, and ended the year eleventh with 91 points. The following year he was called up as a guest driver by KIC Motorsport for the Mugello season finale, but as a guest driver was ineligible to score points.
Alatalo stepped up to the FIA Formula 3 Championship in 2022 with Jenzer Motorsport after completing test days with the Swiss team over the winter. He scored points in the opening feature race at Bahrain and took another point at Imola after a penalty for Ollie Bearman promoted him. A four-point haul at the Red Bull Ring in difficult weather conditions and back-to-back points finishes at Spa — sixth in the sprint and seventh in the feature race — were among his highlights. A crash in qualifying at Zandvoort was a setback, but he qualified seventh for the final round at Monza. He accumulated 24 points across the season, finishing 18th in the standings and ahead of both his Jenzer teammates.
After his single-seater career, Alatalo moved into GT3 competition. He made two guest appearances in the 2023 Italian GT Sprint Championship with AKM Motorsport in a Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo but was ineligible to score.
In 2024 he joined Lazarus Corse for a full Italian GT Sprint Championship campaign in the GT3 Pro-Am class, driving an Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo and finishing fourth in the standings with 64 points. He also made partial appearances in the 2024 Italian GT Endurance Championship with the same team.
For 2025 Alatalo switched to BMW Italia Ceccato Racing, driving a BMW M4 GT3 Evo in the Italian GT Sprint Championship. He took two podiums — third at Vallelunga and second at Mugello — and finished fifth in the standings with 61 points. He also contested two rounds of the 2025 China GT Championship for FIST Team AAI. In 2026 he returned to BMW Italia Ceccato Racing for the Italian GT Endurance Championship.
Alatalo was born to a Finnish father, Markku, and an Ethiopian mother, Mini, and has a younger brother, Daniel. He attended Kuortaneen urheilulukio, a sports-focused secondary school in Finland.
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