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| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | June 19, 1971 Parma |
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Vittoriano Guareschi (born June 19, 1971 in Parma, Italy) is a former professional motorcycle road racer and current team manager for the Ducati Corse factory racing team in MotoGP.
The son of a Parmesan Moto Guzzi distributor, Guareschi began his racing career in 1988 at the age of 17.[1] He raced for the Cagiva factory racing team in the 125 cc Italian national championship alongside his teammate and future world champion, Valentino Rossi.[2] Guareschi progressed to the 600 cc Italian national championship where, he finished in third place in three consecutive seasons between 1992 and 1994.[1] In 1995, he won the Italian Supermono national championship for single-cylinder motorcycles aboard a Yamaha SZR660.[1]
Guareschi made his international racing debut in 1996, competing in the European Supersport Championship for the Italian Belgarda-Yamaha team. He secured three podium results and finished in fifth place in the championship. In 1997, he competed in the Supersport World Championship, winning three races and narrowly losing the championship by one point to Ducati rider Paolo Casoli.[3] He repeated as runnerup in the 1998 Supersport World Championship, this time to Suzuki rider, Fabrizio Pirovano.[3]
In 1999, Guareschi and the Belgarda-Yamaha team fielded a Yamaha YZF-R7 in the Superbike World Championship where, he secured one podium result with a third place at the Zeltweg Airfield Circuit in Austria and, finished the year ranked tenth in the world championship.[3] In 2000, he was joined on the Belgarda team by Noriyuki Haga. Guareschi scored another podium result with a third place at Phillip Island in Australia but, dropped to twentieth in the season final standings.[3]
Guareschi joined the Ducati factory racing team in 2001, competing aboard a Ducati 748 in the Supersport World Championship and finishing the season in sixteenth place.[3] After the 2001 season, Guareschi stopped racing to become the development rider for the Ducati factory racing team's new MotoGP entry, the Desmosedici.[4] He raced one final time, entering the Monza round of the 2004 Supersport World Championship season where, he finished in eighth place.[3] Guareschi continued in his role as Ducati's chief development rider until November 5, 2009 when, he was named as team manager of the Ducati MotoGP team, succeeding Livio Luppo.[5]
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | Machine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Pos | Pts | |||||||||||||
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| R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | |||||
| 1999 | Belgarda-Yamaha | YZF-R7 | RSA 12 |
RSA 13 |
AUS 13 |
AUS 15 |
GBR - |
GBR - |
ESP 9 |
ESP 9 |
ITA 11 |
ITA 10 |
GER 7 |
GER 9 |
SMR 9 |
SMR 8 |
USA - |
USA - |
EUR 15 |
EUR 14 |
AUT 3 |
AUT - |
NED 13 |
NED - |
GER 10 |
GER 12 |
JPN - |
JPN - |
10th | 99 |
| 2000 | Belgarda-Yamaha | YZF-R7 | RSA 15 |
RSA RET |
AUS 3 |
AUS RET |
JPN RET |
JPN RET |
GBR NC |
GBR 14 |
ITA 12 |
ITA RET |
GER 23 |
GER 13 |
SMR RET |
SMR 16 |
ESP 12 |
ESP 13 |
USA RET |
USA - |
GBR 19 |
GBR 12 |
NED 15 |
NED RET |
GER RET |
GER RET |
GBR 12 |
GBR 12 |
20th | 46 |
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