He previously competed in the British Touring Car Championship in 2022[1] and 2023,[2] driving for Laser Tools Racing and Team HARD respectively.

2017 would become Patterson's most successful year to date: the Scot triumphed in the Trofeo delle Industrie and won the Junior Karting World Championship on his first attempt.

[6] Patterson's main campaign for that season would lie in the Italian F4 Championship, where he would partner Jesse Salmenautio and fellow rookies Zdeněk Chovanec and Sebastian Øgaard at Bhaitech.

On the 20 July 2021 Monolite Racing announced that Patterson would be replacing the outgoing Jasin Ferati in the Formula Regional European Championship for the Spa-Francorchamps round.

[16] For 2022, Patterson moved to the British Touring Car Championship, driving an Infiniti Q50 for Laser Tools Racing alongside Aiden Moffat.