| Guido Guerrini | |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Birth Date: | 12 January 1976 |
| Birth Place: | Arezzo, Italy |
| Current Series: | FIA Alternative Energies Cup |
| First Year: | 2009 |
| Former Teams: | Citroen, Alfa Romeo, Abarth, Renault, Nissan, Audi |
| Starts: | 87 |
| Wins: | 14 |
| Titles: | FIA Alternative Energies Cup (co-drivers) |
| Title Years: | 2016, 2017 |
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]
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]
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]
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 25852km (16,064miles) 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]
| Season | Car | Co-drivers | Starts | Victories | Podiums | Points | Ranking | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 |  Fiat Marea | Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 20th | |
| 2010 |  Citroën C1 Citroën C5 | Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi Emanuele Calchetti | 7 | 0 | 2 | 31 | 5th | |
| 2011 | Alfa Romeo Mito | Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi Emanuele Calchetti Leonardo Burchini | 7 | 0 | 4 | 66 | 2nd | |
| 2012 | Alfa Romeo Mito | Emanuele Calchetti Leonardo Burchini | 8 | 1 | 5 | 74 | 2nd | |
| 2013 | Alfa Romeo Mito | Francesca Olivoni Isabelle Barciulli Emanuele Calchetti | 6 | 0 | 4 | 69 | 2nd | |
| 2014 | Alfa Romeo Mito | Isabelle Barciulli | 5 | 0 | 4 | 62 | 2nd | |
| 2016 | Abarth 500 | Francesca Olivoni | 1 | - | - | 10 | 9th | |
| 2019 | Audi e-tron | Emanuele Calchetti | 12 | 1 | 7 | 95,5 | 3rd | |
| 2020 | Audi e-tron | Francesca Olivoni | 2 | - | 2 | 45 | 2nd | |
| Total | 49 | 2 | 28 | 457,5 | - | |||
| Season | Car | Drivers | Starts | Victories | Podiums | Points | Ranking | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Abarth 500 | Nicola Ventura | 6 | 2 | 5 | 76 | 2nd | |
| 2016 | Renault Zoe | Nicola Ventura | 3 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 1st | |
| 2017 |  Nissan Leaf Hyundai Ioniq | Nicola Ventura Vincenzo Di Bella Artur PrusakSvetoslav Dojčinov | 6 | 3 | 4 | 38 | 1st | |
| 2018 | Nissan Leaf Renault Zoe | Artur Prusak | 2 | - | 1 | 8 | 3rd | |
| Total | 17 | 8 | 13 | 152 | - | |||