Guido Guerrini

Guido Guerrini

Guido Guerrini during the award ceremony of the Rallye Monte Carlo des Energies Nouvelles in Monte Carlo, March 22, 2015.
Nationality Italy Italian
Born (1976-01-12) January 12, 1976
Arezzo, Italy
FIA Alternative Energies Cup career
Debut season 2009
Current team Nissan
Former teams Citroen, Alfa Romeo, Abarth, Renault
Starts 48
Wins 8
Championship titles
2016 FIA Alternative Energies Cup (co-drivers)

Guido Guerrini (born 12 January 1976 in Arezzo, Italy) is an Italian rally driver and co-driver. In 2016 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.

Career

Driver

Guerrini debuted as a driver in the FIA Alternative Energies Cup, reserved to hybrid and endothermic vehicles, in 2009, together with co-driver Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi.[1] In 2010, Guerrini obtained the 3rd place in the Italian championship standings and the 5th place in the world championship won by the French driver Raymond Durand.[2]

The following year, together with co-driver Emanuele Calchetti on Alfa Romeo MiTo, he finished second both in the World and in the Italian championships, won by Massimo Liverani,[3] and repeated the same result in 2012[4] and in 2013, when with Emanuele Calchetti he won the Hi-Tech Ecomobility Rally in Athens.[5] In 2014, together with Isabelle Barciulli, Guerrini gained another second place in the World cup and the third place in the Italian championship.[6]

Co-driver

In the 2015 season Guerrini took part to the championships as a co-driver, together with driver Nicola Ventura on Abarth 500, finishing at the second place the World championship after Thierry Benchetrit and winning ex-aequo with Valeria Strada the Italian championship.[7][8].

In the 2016 season Ventura and Guerrini on Renault Zoe passed to the category reserved to purely electric cars and they won the World Cup.[9] In 2017 he is taking part to the FIA Electric and New Energies Championship, which joined both the previous hybrid and purely electric categories.

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.[10][11][12]

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),[13] 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.[14][15][16] 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.[10][11][17][18] The project is described in the 2008 book Aregolavanti (Always Forward).[19]

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, Ukraine.[20] This experience originated the travel book Via Stalingrado (Stalingrad Street, 2011).[21]

Among his many other car travels, Guerrini reached the extremes of Europe (North Cape, Istanbul, Gibraltar), and completed an expedition to Caspian Sea through the Caucasian republics in 2010,[22] another travel to Volgograd in december 2013 and january 2014 on Iveco Daily with a mixed system methan-diesel,[23], the Arezzo-Chernobyl' on a methan-propelled Peugeot Expert in the following winter[24] and the Milan-Astana on gpl Seat Altea in 2016.[25].

Results in the FIA AEC

Driver

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 9nd
Total 35 1 19 317 -

Co-driver

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
4 2 3 28 1st
Total 13 7 11 134 -

Sources

  1. (in Italian) Brillante Performance delle auto di Sansepolcro all'Ecorally San Marino-Vaticano. ArezzoNotizie, 2009-09-21.
  2. FIA Alternative Energies - Final Results 2010
  3. FIA Alternative Energies Cup, in Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile.
  4. (in Italian) Imega è vicecampione del mondo FIA, Ecomotori, 2011-10-18.
  5. (in Italian) Strepitoso successo della scuderia Imega-Boninsegni in Grecia, SaturnoNotizie, 2012-10-08.
  6. (in Serbian) Završen 3. Tesla Rally 2014. AllCarCentral, 2014-07-11.
  7. (in Italian) EcoRally Grecia 2015: ottimo 3º posto per la 500 EcoAbarth a metano di ecomotori. Ecomotori, 2015-10-06
  8. (in Italian) Premi Campioni ACI 2015. NewsAuto, 2016-02-08.
  9. (in Italian) [http://www.arezzonotizie.it/sport/ecomotori-racing-team-vittoria-in-grecia-guido-guerrini-campione-del-mondo/ Ecomotori Racing Team, vittoria in Grecia. Guido Guerrini campione del mondo. ArezzoNotizie, 2016-10-09.
  10. 1 2 (in Italian) Da Torino a Pechino a Gpl. Ecomobile (n. 77, August 2008), pp. 12-13.
  11. 1 2 (in Italian) 26.000 km a Gpl. Quattroruote (n. 11, December 2008), p. 11.
  12. (in Italian) Guido Guerrini in openpolis.it.
  13. (in Italian) Comune di Anghiari: Sindaco e Amministrazione Comunale in Comuni-italiani.it.
  14. (in Croatian) Vito Periċ. «Automobilom od Toronta, preko Pekinga, pa do Sinja». Slobodna Dalmacija, 2008-09-19.
  15. (in Maltese) «Viaġġ ta' 25,852 kilometru bil-karozza... bla qatra petrol». L'Orizzont, 2010-07-10, p. 18.
  16. (in Russian) Из Турина в Пекин на автомобиле... через Россию, Италия по-русски, 2008-07-25.
  17. (in Italian) Dalla Cina all'Italia a Gpl per la Via della Seta. Ecomobile (n. 79, December 2008): pp. 30-34.
  18. (in Italian) «Il Motor Show chiude limitando le perdite». Il Resto del Carlino, 2008-12-15, p. 15.
  19. (in Italian) Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi, Guido Guerrini, Nicola Dini, Aregovalanti, Città di Castello, 2008, pp. 160.
  20. (in Italian) Il raid con i Suv cinesi Gonow, La Repubblica, 2011-02-22.
  21. (in Italian) "Via Stalingrado", domenica ad Anghiari la presentazione del nuovo libro di Calchetti e Guerrini, ArezzoNotizie, 2011-12-14.
  22. (in Italian) Guido Guerrini, viaggiatore, in Calchetti, Guerrini, Via Stalingrado, cited.
  23. (in Italian) Giunta a Volgograd la spedizione dell'Associazione Torino-Pechino. PrimoPianoNotizie, 2013-12-20.
  24. (in Italian) Solidarietà a metano in Ucraina, la partenza da Arezzo. Ecomotori.net, 2014-12-27.
  25. (in Italian) Verso l'Expo 2017 di Astana con una Altea GPL. Ecomotori, 2016-07-28.

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