Emanuele Calchetti (; born 2 February 1981 in

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) is an Italian

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, in

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FIA Alternative Energies World Champion.
Belgrado incorona Emanuele Calchetti campione del mondo co-piloti
''. ''ArezzoNotizie'', 10-29-2012.

Biography

Calchetti has participated in the FIA Alternative Energies World Champion since

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. During that season, with the driver Guido Guerrini, he won the regularity standings of the circuit race in

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(with

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) and

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(

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). In

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, with

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, he gained the second place in

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and the third place in

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. In

, again with

, Calchetti became World Champion in the co-drivers' category, winning in Athens and arriving second in

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and

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. In 2019 he came back to the races with Guido Guerrini on an

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in the

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. Toscan crew won in

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(Rallye du Chablais) and reached the podium other six times, finishing the season at the third place of the general standings and winning the manufacturers' championship. Journalist, Calchetti is since 2008 a member of the

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. In 2011 he wrote with Guido Guerrini the

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''Via Stalingrado'' (''Stalingrad Road''). In 2016 he voiced the Italian character of Gianni, played by

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, in the Russian version of British film ''

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Bibliography

* Emanuele Calchetti, Guido Guerrini, ''Via Stalingrado'', Petruzzi Editore, Città di Castello, 2011, pp. 216. . * Emanuele Calchetti, ''Socialismo lunare'', in ''70 ore nel futuro'', Fuorionda, 2013, pp. 180. . * Emanuele Calchetti, ''Siberia'', in Guido Guerrini, ''Eurasia. Dall'Atlantico al Pacifico con il gas naturale'', Sansepolcro, 2018. .

References

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