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Great news for the Italian motorsport movement, which welcomes the announcement of Leonardo Lorandi's entry into the Renault Sport Academy. The eighteen-year-old from Brescia, currently engaged in the Formula Renault Eurocup with the JD Motorsport team and returning from a second place in the Italian F.4 Championship powered by Abarth 2018, puts another important step in his growth path as a pilot started, obviously, on karts.

Leonardo's intense career in karts began in 2007, but his debut in international competitions in 2010 was with the WSK Super Master Series in the 60 Mini category, on board a Tony Kart powered by LKE with the colors of the Baby Race Driver Academy next to his older brother Alessio.
Already in 2012 the first important successes arrived: Italian Champion, WSK Super Master Series, WSK Euro Series and WSK Final Cup. In 2014, in the KFJ category, the WSK Super Master Series finished in third place, and in the following years it continued its career by karting without specializing in single or single speed classes, but adapting his driving style to both. In 2015 he won the WSK Night Edition in KF, while the following year he won the WSK Super Master Series in KZ2.
In the following years he continued to practice karting in parallel with single-seaters, with which he made his debut in the Italian F.4 Championship.
Here, in his first year, he won the rookie ranking and is 6th in the overall classification. The following year, instead, he fought for victory until the last race and finished in second place behind Enzo Fittipaldi.

The experience of Leonardo, as well as that of his brother Alessio (who came to race up in GP3 and Formula 2) both still engaged, when they can, even in karting, confirms once again how the discipline of karting is fundamental in shaping a driver , even in an age in which simulators and new training techniques become more and more accessible and the contamination of E-Sports becomes more and more important. Obviously Renault also knows that he has chosen to focus on the talent of Leonardo Lorandi, placing him as an Affiliate Driver in his prestigious program of support for young drivers.