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 |
 Italian |
| Born |
January 12, 1976 Arezzo, Italy |
| FIA Alternative Energies Cup career | |
| Debut season | 2009 |
| Current team | Abarth |
Guido Guerrini (born 12 January 1976 in Arezzo, Italy) is an Italian rally driver and traveler, the first person to go from Europe to China covering the whole route by a gas-fuelled car.[1][2][3]
As a child, Guerrini made many car trips with his father, and later with friends.[4] In 2008 he organized a project called Torino-Pechino, la macchina della pace (Turin-Beijing, the peace machine): overall, he and Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi (born 27 October 1978 in Arezzo, Italy),[5] 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.[6][7][8] 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.[1][2][9][10]
The project is described in the 2008 book Aregolavanti (Always Forward).[4]
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.[11] This experience originated the travel book Via Stalingrado (Stalingrad Street, 2011).[12]
In 2010, Guerrini participated in the FIA Alternative Energies Cup, also using LPG-fuelled cars, obtaining the 3rd place in the Italian championship standings and the 5th place in the world championship won by the French driver Raymond Durand.[13] The next year he finished 2nd both in the World and in the Italian championships, both won by Massimo Liverani.[14]
Sources
- 1 2 (Italian) Da Torino a Pechino a Gpl. Ecomobile (n. 77, August 2008), pp. 12-13.
- 1 2 (Italian) 26.000 km a Gpl. Quattroruote (n. 11, December 2008), p. 11.
- ↑ (Italian) Guido Guerrini in openpolis.it.
- 1 2 (Italian) Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi, Guido Guerrini, Nicola Dini, Aregovalanti, Città di Castello, 2008, pp. 160.
- ↑ (Italian) Comune di Anghiari: Sindaco e Amministrazione Comunale in Comuni-italiani.it.
- ↑ (Croatian) Vito Periċ. «Automobilom od Toronta, preko Pekinga, pa do Sinja». Slobodna Dalmacija, 2008-09-19.
- ↑ (Maltese) «Viaġġ ta' 25,852 kilometru bil-karozza... bla qatra petrol». L'Orizzont, 2010-07-10, p. 18.
- ↑ (Russian) Из Турина в Пекин на автомобиле... через Россию, Италия по-русски, 2008-07-25.
- ↑ (Italian) Dalla Cina all'Italia a Gpl per la Via della Seta. Ecomobile (n. 79, December 2008): pp. 30-34.
- ↑ (Italian) «Il Motor Show chiude limitando le perdite». Il Resto del Carlino, 2008-12-15, p. 15.
- ↑ (Italian) Il raid con i Suv cinesi Gonow, La Repubblica, 2011-02-22.
- ↑ (Italian) "Via Stalingrado", domenica ad Anghiari la presentazione del nuovo libro di Calchetti e Guerrini, ArezzoNotizie, 2011-12-14.
- ↑ FIA Alternative Energies - Final Results 2010
- ↑ FIA Alternative Energies Cup, in Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile.
Bibliography
- (Italian) Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi, Guido Guerrini, Nicola Dini, Aregovalanti, Città di Castello, 2008, pp. 160.
- (Italian) Emanuele Calchetti, Guido Guerrini, Via Stalingrado, Petruzzi Editore, Città di Castello, 2011, pp. 216. ISBN 978-88-89797-31-0.