Guido Guerrini (born 12 January 1976 in Arezzo, Italy) is an Italian

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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

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. '' ww.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.

Career

Driver

Guerrini debuted as a driver in the FIA Alternative Energies Cup, reserved for

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and endothermic vehicles, in 2009, together with co-driver Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi. In 2010, Guerrini obtained 3rd place in the Italian championship standings and 5th place in the

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won by the French driver Raymond Durand. The following year, together with co-driver Emanuele Calchetti on an

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, he finished second both in the world and in the Italian championships, won by

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, and repeated the same result in

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'', ''Ecomotori'', 2011-10-18. and in

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, when with Emanuele Calchetti he won the

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. In

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, together with Isabelle Barciulli, Guerrini gained another second place in the World Cup and third place in the Italian championship. In 2019 Guerrini participated as a driver in the

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with Emanuele Calchetti on an

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, winning the manufacturers' championship and obtaining the third place in the drivers' standings. 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.

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

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and winning the Italian championship

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with Valeria Strada. 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. In

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Guerrini won 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. ''Da Torino a Pechino a Gpl''. ''Ecomobile'' (n. 77, August 2008), pp. 12-13. ''26.000 km a Gpl''. ''Quattroruote'' (n. 11, December 2008), p. 11. 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), covered using a 1999 Fiat Marea 1.6 16V from the seat of the

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(in

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) to the seat of the 2008 Summer Olympics (in Beijing) and returning to Italy. 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. The project is described in the 2008 book ''Aregolavanti'' (''Always Forward''). Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi, Guido Guerrini, Nicola Dini, ''Aregovalanti'', Città di Castello, 2008, 160 pp. In winter 2011, together with Emanuele Calchetti, he traveled from Rome to

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with a gas-fuelled

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pick-up, crossing Eastern Europe,

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, and Ukraine. This experience originated the travel book ''Via Stalingrado'' (''Stalingrad Street'', 2011). Among his many other car travels, Guerrini reached the extremes of Europe ( North Cape, Istanbul, Gibraltar), and completed an expedition to the

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through the

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republics in 2010, another travel to Volgograd in December 2013 and January 2014 on an Iveco Daily with a mixed system

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, the Arezzo-

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on a methane-propelled

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in the following winter and the

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on an LPG

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in 2016. In June 2018 he started a new "Turin-Beijing" project on a diesel-methane propelled

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. It is described in the travel book ''Eurasia''.

Results in the FIA AEC

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Sources

Bibliography

* Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi, Guido Guerrini, Nicola Dini, ''Aregovalanti'', Città di Castello, 2008, 160 pp. * Emanuele Calchetti, Guido Guerrini, ''Via Stalingrado'', Petruzzi Editore, Città di Castello, 2011, 216 pp. . * Guido Guerrini, ''Eurasia. Dall'Atlantico al Pacifico con il gas naturale'', Sansepolcro, 2018. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Guerrini, Guido Travelers FIA E-Rally Regularity Cup drivers Italian rally drivers Living people 1976 births Sportspeople from Arezzo Naturalised citizens of Russia