Guido Guerrini

This article is about the racing driver. For the composer, conductor, violinist, and music educator, see Guido Guerrini (composer).
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 (age 49)
Arezzo, Italy
FIA Alternative Energies Cup career
Debut season2009
Former teamsCitroen, Alfa Romeo, Abarth, Renault, Nissan, Audi, Kia Motors
Starts99
Wins18
Championship titles
2016, 2017FIA Alternative Energies Cup (co-drivers)

Guido Guerrini (born 12 January 1976 in Arezzo, Italy)[1] is an Italian rally driver and co-driver with Russian citizenship. In 2016 and 2017, he won the FIA Alternative Energies Cup in the co-drivers' category. He also collected eight second places, as a co-driver in 2015 and as a driver from 2011 to 2014 and in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Since 2016, he is based in Kazan, Russian Federation.[2]

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 two races of the Italian Championship with Emanuele Calchetti.[10][11]

In 2021, he participated in the FIA Cup with Francesca Olivoni and in the last races of the season with Artur Prusak, who was his co-driver in 2022, 2023 and 2024 in a Kia eNiro. They won three times the EcoDolomitesGT in Fiera di Primiero (2022, 2023 and 2024) twice the Winter Eco Rally in Östersund (2023 and 2024) and once the Azores Eco Rallye (2024) and Mahle Eco Rally in Nova Gorica (2024).[12][13][14]

In 2024, Guerrini and Emanuele Calchetti, on a Nio ET5, conquered the first EcoRally Cup China, winning 3 of the 5 stages and the final classification of Greater Huangshan International Ecorally held in the Anhui province.[15]

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.[16][17]

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.[18] 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.[19][20]

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),[21] 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.[22][23][24] 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.[19][20][25][26] The project is described in the 2008 book Aregolavanti (Always Forward).[27]

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.[28] This experience originated the travel book Via Stalingrado (Stalingrad Street, 2011).[29]

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,[30] another travel to Volgograd in December 2013 and January 2014 on an Iveco Daily with a mixed system methane-diesel,[31] the Arezzo-Chernobyl on a methane-propelled Peugeot Expert in the following winter[32] and the Milan-Astana on an LPG Seat Altea in 2016.[33]

In June 2018, he started a new "Turin-Beijing" project on a diesel-methane propelled Toyota Hilux.[34][35] It is described in the travel book Eurasia.[34][36]

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
2021 Germany Volkswagen ID.4
Germany Volkswagen ID.3 		Italy Francesca Olivoni
Poland Artur Prusak 		6 - 2 46,5 5th
2022 South Korea Kia eNiro Poland Artur Prusak 7 2 6 105,5 2nd
2023 South Korea Kia eNiro Poland Artur Prusak 8 2 4 80 2nd
2024 South Korea Kia eNiro Poland Artur Prusak 12 4 9 140,5 2nd
Total 82 10 48 830 -

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 -

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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.