Guido Guerrini (born 12 January 1976 in
Arezzo
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, Italy) is an Italian
rally
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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
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,
Russian Federation
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.
[ '' ww.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.]
Career
Driver
Guerrini debuted as a driver in the
FIA Alternative Energies Cup, reserved for
hybrid
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and endothermic vehicles, in
2009
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, together with co-driver
Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi. In
2010
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, Guerrini obtained 3rd place in the Italian championship standings and 5th place in the
world championship
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won by the
French
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driver
Raymond Durand.
The
following year, together with co-driver
Emanuele Calchetti on an
Alfa Romeo MiTo
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, he finished second both in the world and in the Italian championships, won by
Massimo Liverani
Massimo Liverani (born 19 September 1961) is an Italian rally driver and co-driver born in Rocca San Casciano. As a driver, he won the FIA Alternative Energies Cup in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. As a co-driver he won the World Championship in 20 ...
, and repeated the same result in
2012
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'', ''Ecomotori'', 2011-10-18. and in
2013
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, when with Emanuele Calchetti he won the
Hi-Tech Ecomobility Rally
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in
Athens
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. In
2014
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, together with
Isabelle Barciulli, Guerrini gained another second place in the World Cup and third place in the Italian championship.
In 2019 Guerrini participated as a driver in the
FIA E-Rally Regularity Cup
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with Emanuele Calchetti on an
Audi e-tron
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, winning the manufacturers' championship and obtaining the third place in the drivers' standings. 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.
Co-driver
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
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People w ...
and winning the Italian championship
ex-aequo
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with
Valeria Strada.
In the
2016 season Ventura and Guerrini on a
Renault Zoe
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passed to the category reserved for
purely electric cars and they won the World Cup. In
2017
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Guerrini won the
FIA Electric and New Energies Championship, which joined both the previous hybrid and purely electric categories.
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Travels
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.[ ''Da Torino a Pechino a Gpl''. ''Ecomobile'' (n. 77, August 2008), pp. 12-13.][ ''26.000 km a Gpl''. ''Quattroruote'' (n. 11, December 2008), p. 11.]
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
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, Italy), covered using a 1999 Fiat Marea 1.6 16V from the seat of the 2006 Winter Olympics
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(in Turin
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) to the seat of the 2008 Summer Olympics
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(in Beijing) and returning to Italy. 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.[ The project is described in the 2008 book ''Aregolavanti'' (''Always Forward'').][ Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi, Guido Guerrini, Nicola Dini, ''Aregovalanti'', Città di Castello, 2008, 160 pp.]
In winter 2011, together with Emanuele Calchetti, he traveled from Rome to Volgograd
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with a gas-fuelled Gonow
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pick-up, crossing Eastern Europe, Moldova
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, Transnistria
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, and Ukraine. This experience originated the travel book ''Via Stalingrado'' (''Stalingrad Street'', 2011).
Among his many other car travels, Guerrini reached the extremes of Europe ( North Cape, Istanbul, Gibraltar), and completed an expedition to the Caspian Sea
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through the Caucasian
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republics in 2010, another travel to Volgograd in December 2013 and January 2014 on an Iveco Daily
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with a mixed system methane
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-diesel
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, the Arezzo
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-Chernobyl
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on a methane-propelled Peugeot Expert
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in the following winter and the Milan
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-Astana
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on an LPG Seat Altea
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in 2016.
In June 2018 he started a new "Turin-Beijing" project on a diesel-methane propelled Toyota Hilux
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. It is described in the travel book ''Eurasia''.
Results in the FIA AEC
Driver
Co-driver
Sources
Bibliography
* Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi, Guido Guerrini, Nicola Dini, ''Aregovalanti'', Città di Castello, 2008, 160 pp.
* Emanuele Calchetti, Guido Guerrini, ''Via Stalingrado'', Petruzzi Editore, Città di Castello, 2011, 216 pp. .
* Guido Guerrini, ''Eurasia. Dall'Atlantico al Pacifico con il gas naturale'', Sansepolcro, 2018. .
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Travelers
FIA E-Rally Regularity Cup drivers
Italian rally drivers
Living people
1976 births
Sportspeople from Arezzo
Naturalised citizens of Russia