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, in 2015 as a co-driver and from 2011 to 2014 as a driver. 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, March 22, 2015
Nationality Italian
Born (1976-01-12) January 12, 1976
Arezzo, Italy
FIA Alternative Energies Cup career
Debut season2009
Current teamAudi
Former teamsCitroen, Alfa Romeo, Abarth, Renault, Nissan
Starts64
Wins10
Championship titles
2016, 2017FIA Alternative Energies Cup (co-drivers)

Career

Driver

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 manifacturers' championship and obtaining the third place in the drivers' standings.[9]

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 and winning the Italian championship ex-aequo with Valeria Strada.[10][11].

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.[12] In 2017 Guerrini won the FIA Electric and New Energies Championship, which joined both the previous hybrid and purely electric categories.[2]

Travels
"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.[13][14]

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),[15] 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.[16][17][18] 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.[13][14][19][20] The project is described in the 2008 book Aregolavanti (Always Forward).[21]

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.[22] This experience originated the travel book Via Stalingrado (Stalingrad Street, 2011).[23]

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,[24] another travel to Volgograd in December 2013 and January 2014 on an Iveco Daily with a mixed system methane-diesel,[25], the Arezzo-Chernobyl on a methane-propelled Peugeot Expert in the following winter[26] and the Milan-Astana on an LPG Seat Altea in 2016.[27].

In june 2018 he started a new "Turin-Beijing" project on a diesel-methane propelled Toyota Hilux[28][29].

Results in the FIA AEC

Driver
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
Total 47 2 26 412,5 -

Co-driver
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
  1. (in Italian) Guido Guerrini in openpolis.it.
  2. (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, 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. (in Italian) EcoRally Grecia 2015: ottimo 3º posto per la 500 EcoAbarth a metano di ecomotori. Ecomotori, 2015-10-06
  11. (in Italian) Premi Campioni ACI 2015. NewsAuto, 2016-02-08.
  12. (in Italian) Ecomotori Racing Team, vittoria in Grecia. Guido Guerrini campione del mondo. ArezzoNotizie, 2016-10-09.
  13. (in Italian) Da Torino a Pechino a Gpl. Ecomobile (n. 77, August 2008), pp. 12-13.
  14. (in Italian) 26.000 km a Gpl. Quattroruote (n. 11, December 2008), p. 11.
  15. (in Italian) Comune di Anghiari: Sindaco e Amministrazione Comunale in Comuni-italiani.it.
  16. (in Croatian) Vito Periċ. «Automobilom od Toronta, preko Pekinga, pa do Sinja». Slobodna Dalmacija, 2008-09-19.
  17. (in Maltese) «Viaġġ ta' 25,852 kilometru bil-karozza... bla qatra petrol». L'Orizzont, 2010-07-10, p. 18.
  18. (in Russian) Из Турина в Пекин на автомобиле... через Россию, Италия по-русски, 2008-07-25.
  19. (in Italian) Dalla Cina all'Italia a Gpl per la Via della Seta. Ecomobile (n. 79, December 2008): pp. 30-34.
  20. (in Italian) «Il Motor Show chiude limitando le perdite». Il Resto del Carlino, 2008-12-15, p. 15.
  21. (in Italian) Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi, Guido Guerrini, Nicola Dini, Aregovalanti, Città di Castello, 2008, 160 pp.
  22. (in Italian) Il raid con i Suv cinesi Gonow, La Repubblica, 2011-02-22.
  23. (in Italian) "Via Stalingrado", domenica ad Anghiari la presentazione del nuovo libro di Calchetti e Guerrini, ArezzoNotizie, 2011-12-14.
  24. (in Italian) Guido Guerrini, viaggiatore, in Calchetti, Guerrini, Via Stalingrado, cited.
  25. (in Italian) Giunta a Volgograd la spedizione dell'Associazione Torino-Pechino. PrimoPianoNotizie, 2013-12-20.
  26. (in Italian) Solidarietà a metano in Ucraina, la partenza da Arezzo. Ecomotori.net, 2014-12-27.
  27. (in Italian) Verso l'Expo 2017 di Astana con una Altea GPL. Ecomotori, 2016-07-28.
  28. "Da Torino a Pechino con l'auto a biogas, avventura ecologica". Ansa.it (in Italian). 2018-06-08.
  29. Roberto Chiodi (2018-06-12). "Dall'Atlantico al Pacifico (e ritorno) novanta giorni col gasolio-metano". Repubblica.it (in Italian).

Bibliography
  • (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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