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Guido Guerrini

Guido Guerrini (born 12 January 1976 in Arezzo, Italy)[1] is an Italian rally driver and co-driver. In 2016 and 2017 he won the FIA Alternative Energies Cup in the co-drivers' category. Before that, he collected five second places, as a co-driver in 2015 and as a driver from 2011 to 2014 and in 2020. Since 2016 he is based in Kazan, Russian Federation.[2]

Guido Guerrini
Guido Guerrini during the award ceremony of the Rallye Monte Carlo des Energies Nouvelles in Monte Carlo, 22 March 2015
NationalityItaly Italian
Born (1976-01-12) 12 January 1976 (age 48)
Arezzo, Italy
FIA Alternative Energies Cup career
Debut season2009
Former teamsCitroen, Alfa Romeo, Abarth, Renault, Nissan, Audi
Starts87
Wins14
Championship titles
2016, 2017FIA Alternative Energies Cup (co-drivers)

Career edit

Driver edit

Guerrini debuted as a driver in the FIA Alternative Energies Cup, reserved for hybrid and endothermic vehicles, in 2009, together with co-driver Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi.[3] In 2010, Guerrini obtained 3rd place in the Italian championship standings and 5th place in the world championship won by the French driver Raymond Durand.[4]

The following year, together with co-driver Emanuele Calchetti on an Alfa Romeo MiTo, he finished second both in the world and in the Italian championships, won by Massimo Liverani,[5] and repeated the same result in 2012[6] and in 2013, when with Emanuele Calchetti he won the Hi-Tech Ecomobility Rally in Athens.[7] In 2014, together with Isabelle Barciulli, Guerrini gained another second place in the World Cup and third place in the Italian championship.[8]

In 2019 Guerrini participated as a driver in the FIA E-Rally Regularity Cup with Emanuele Calchetti on an Audi e-tron, winning the manufacturers' championship and obtaining the third place in the drivers' standings.[9] In 2020 together with Francesca Olivoni he obtained the second place in the overall standings of a FIA ERRC season which was reduced because of Covid and won to races of the Italian Championship with Emanuele Calchetti.[10][11]

Co-driver edit

In the 2015 season Guerrini took part in the championships as a co-driver, together with driver Nicola Ventura on an Abarth 500, finishing at second place in the world championship after Thierry Benchetrit and winning the Italian championship ex-aequo with Valeria Strada.[12][13]

In the 2016 season Ventura and Guerrini on a Renault Zoe passed to the category reserved for purely electric cars and they won the World Cup.[14] In 2017 Guerrini won the FIA Electric and New Energies Championship, which joined both the previous hybrid and purely electric categories.[2]

Travels edit

 
"Turin-Beijing" Fiat Marea at the Bologna Motor Show in 2008.

Guido Guerrini is also a car traveler, the first person to go from Europe to China covering the whole route by a gas-fuelled car.[15][16]

The project, called Torino-Pechino, la macchina della pace (Turin-Beijing, the peace machine), was organized in 2008: overall, Guerrini and Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi (born 27 October 1978 in Arezzo, Italy),[17] covered 25,852 km (16,064 mi) using a 1999 Fiat Marea 1.6 16V from the seat of the 2006 Winter Olympics (in Turin) to the seat of the 2008 Summer Olympics (in Beijing) and returning to Italy.[18][19][20] The trip started on 6 July 2008 and passed through 17 countries to finish on 21 September 2008, and used LPG for fuel for 95% of the journey.[15][16][21][22] The project is described in the 2008 book Aregolavanti (Always Forward).[23]

In winter 2011, together with Emanuele Calchetti, he traveled from Rome to Volgograd with a gas-fuelled Gonow pick-up, crossing Eastern Europe, Moldova, Transnistria, and Ukraine.[24] This experience originated the travel book Via Stalingrado (Stalingrad Street, 2011).[25]

Among his many other car travels, Guerrini reached the extremes of Europe (North Cape, Istanbul, Gibraltar), and completed an expedition to the Caspian Sea through the Caucasian republics in 2010,[26] another travel to Volgograd in December 2013 and January 2014 on an Iveco Daily with a mixed system methane-diesel,[27] the Arezzo-Chernobyl on a methane-propelled Peugeot Expert in the following winter[28] and the Milan-Astana on an LPG Seat Altea in 2016.[29]

In June 2018 he started a new "Turin-Beijing" project on a diesel-methane propelled Toyota Hilux.[30][31] It is described in the travel book Eurasia.[30][32]

Results in the FIA AEC edit

Driver edit

Driver results in the FIA AEC
Season Car Co-drivers Starts Victories Podiums Points Ranking
2009   Fiat Marea   Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi 1 0 0 5 20th
2010   Citroën C1
  Citroën C5 		  Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi
  Emanuele Calchetti 		7 0 2 31 5th
2011   Alfa Romeo Mito   Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi
  Emanuele Calchetti
  Leonardo Burchini 		7 0 4 66 2nd
2012   Alfa Romeo Mito   Emanuele Calchetti
  Leonardo Burchini 		8 1 5 74 2nd
2013   Alfa Romeo Mito   Francesca Olivoni
  Isabelle Barciulli
  Emanuele Calchetti 		6 0 4 69 2nd
2014   Alfa Romeo Mito   Isabelle Barciulli 5 0 4 62 2nd
2016   Abarth 500   Francesca Olivoni 1 - - 10 9th
2019   Audi e-tron   Emanuele Calchetti 12 1 7 95,5 3rd
2020   Audi e-tron   Francesca Olivoni 2 - 2 45 2nd
Total 49 2 28 457,5 -

Co-driver edit

Co-driver results in the FIA AEC
Season Car Drivers Starts Victories Podiums Points Ranking
2015   Abarth 500   Nicola Ventura 6 2 5 76 2nd
2016   Renault Zoe   Nicola Ventura 3 3 3 30 1st
2017   Nissan Leaf
  Hyundai Ioniq
   Nicola Ventura
  Vincenzo Di Bella
  Artur Prusak
  Svetoslav Dojčinov
 6 3 4 38 1st
2018   Nissan Leaf
  Renault Zoe 		  Artur Prusak 2 - 1 8 3rd
Total 17 8 13 152 -

Sources edit

  1. ^ (in Italian) Guido Guerrini in openpolis.it.
  2. ^ a b (in Italian) [www.arezzonotizie.it/sport/guido-guerrini-premiato-allautodromo-monza-mondiale-fia-2017/ Guido Guerrini premiato all’autodromo di Monza per il mondiale FIA 2017]. ArezzoNotizie, 2018-01-20.
  3. ^ (in Italian) Brillante Performance delle auto di Sansepolcro all'Ecorally San Marino-Vaticano. ArezzoNotizie, 2009-09-21.
  4. ^ FIA Alternative Energies - Final Results 2010 Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ FIA Alternative Energies Cup Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, in Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile.
  6. ^ (in Italian) Imega è vicecampione del mondo FIA Archived 2012-03-05 at the Wayback Machine, Ecomotori, 2011-10-18.
  7. ^ (in Italian) Strepitoso successo della scuderia Imega-Boninsegni in Grecia Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine, SaturnoNotizie, 2012-10-08.
  8. ^ (in Serbian) Završen 3. Tesla Rally 2014. AllCarCentral, 2014-07-11.
  9. ^ "Classifications - Season 2019". www.fia.com. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  10. ^ Fabio Patti (2020-11-17). "Guerrini e Olivoni da applausi". La Nazione (in Italian).
  11. ^ Mauro De Zordo (2020-12-02). "Energie Alternative: l'ottima stagione di Guerrini e Olivoni". acisport.it (in Italian).[permanent dead link]
  12. ^ (in Italian) EcoRally Grecia 2015: ottimo 3º posto per la 500 EcoAbarth a metano di ecomotori. Ecomotori, 2015-10-06
  13. ^ (in Italian) Premi Campioni ACI 2015. NewsAuto, 2016-02-08.
  14. ^ (in Italian) Ecomotori Racing Team, vittoria in Grecia. Guido Guerrini campione del mondo. ArezzoNotizie, 2016-10-09.
  15. ^ a b (in Italian) Da Torino a Pechino a Gpl. Ecomobile (n. 77, August 2008), pp. 12-13.
  16. ^ a b (in Italian) 26.000 km a Gpl. Quattroruote (n. 11, December 2008), p. 11.
  17. ^ (in Italian) Comune di Anghiari: Sindaco e Amministrazione Comunale in Comuni-italiani.it.
  18. ^ (in Croatian) Vito Periċ. «Automobilom od Toronta, preko Pekinga, pa do Sinja». Slobodna Dalmacija, 2008-09-19.
  19. ^ (in Maltese) «Viaġġ ta' 25,852 kilometru bil-karozza... bla qatra petrol». L'Orizzont, 2010-07-10, p. 18.
  20. ^ (in Russian) Из Турина в Пекин на автомобиле... через Россию, Италия по-русски, 2008-07-25.
  21. ^ (in Italian) Dalla Cina all'Italia a Gpl per la Via della Seta. Ecomobile (n. 79, December 2008): pp. 30-34.
  22. ^ (in Italian) «Il Motor Show chiude limitando le perdite». Il Resto del Carlino, 2008-12-15, p. 15.
  23. ^ (in Italian) Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi, Guido Guerrini, Nicola Dini, Aregovalanti, Città di Castello, 2008, 160 pp.
  24. ^ (in Italian) Il raid con i Suv cinesi Gonow, La Repubblica, 2011-02-22.
  25. ^ (in Italian) "Via Stalingrado", domenica ad Anghiari la presentazione del nuovo libro di Calchetti e Guerrini[permanent dead link], ArezzoNotizie, 2011-12-14.
  26. ^ (in Italian) Guido Guerrini, viaggiatore, in Calchetti, Guerrini, Via Stalingrado, cited.
  27. ^ (in Italian) Giunta a Volgograd la spedizione dell'Associazione Torino-Pechino. PrimoPianoNotizie, 2013-12-20.
  28. ^ (in Italian) Solidarietà a metano in Ucraina, la partenza da Arezzo. Ecomotori.net, 2014-12-27.
  29. ^ (in Italian) Verso l'Expo 2017 di Astana con una Altea GPL. Ecomotori, 2016-07-28.
  30. ^ a b "Da Torino a Pechino con l'auto a biogas, avventura ecologica". Ansa.it (in Italian). 2018-06-08.
  31. ^ Chiodi, Roberto (2018-06-12). "Dall'Atlantico al Pacifico (e ritorno) novanta giorni col gasolio-metano". Repubblica.it (in Italian).
  32. ^ "La seconda giovinezza del libro "Eurasia"". TeverePost (in Italian). 2020-12-09.

Bibliography edit

  • (in Italian) Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi, Guido Guerrini, Nicola Dini, Aregovalanti, Città di Castello, 2008, 160 pp.
  • (in Italian) Emanuele Calchetti, Guido Guerrini, Via Stalingrado, Petruzzi Editore, Città di Castello, 2011, 216 pp. ISBN 978-88-89797-31-0.
  • (in Italian) Guido Guerrini, Eurasia. Dall'Atlantico al Pacifico con il gas naturale, Sansepolcro, 2018. ISBN 978-88-94407-60-0.
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