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
Arezzo, Italy
FIA Alternative Energies Cup career
Debut season2009
Former teamsCitroen, Alfa Romeo, Abarth, Renault, Nissan, Audi
Starts86
Wins13
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 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

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
"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

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

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

Sources
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  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 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).
  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. (in Italian) Da Torino a Pechino a Gpl. Ecomobile (n. 77, August 2008), pp. 12-13.
  16. (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, 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. "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
  • (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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