Guido Guerrini (born 12 January 1976 in Arezzo, Italy) Guido Guerrini in openpolis.it. is an Italian rally driver and co-driver with Russian citizenship, world champion of the FIA ecoRally Cup in 2025 as a driver and in 2016 and 2017 as a co-driver. Since 2016, he is based in Kazan, Russian Federation. [www.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. Since 2025, he has been competing with a San Marino racing license.
Career
Driver
Guerrini debuted as a driver in the FIA Alternative Energies Cup in 2009, a competition reserved for hybrid and endothermic vehicles, together with co-driver Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi. Brillante Performance delle auto di Sansepolcro all'Ecorally San Marino-Vaticano. ArezzoNotizie, 2009-09-21. In 2010, Guerrini achieved 3rd place in the Italian championship standings and 5th place in the world championship, which was won by French driver Raymond Durand.FIA Alternative Energies - Final Results 2010
The following year, together with co-driver Emanuele Calchetti in an Alfa Romeo MiTo, Guerrini finished second in both the world and Italian championships, behind Massimo Liverani.FIA Alternative Energies Cup , in Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. He repeated the same result in 2012 Imega è vicecampione del mondo FIA , Ecomotori, 2011-10-18. and 2013. In 2013, he and Emanuele Calchetti also won the Hi-Tech Ecomobility Rally in Athens. Strepitoso successo della scuderia Imega-Boninsegni in Grecia , SaturnoNotizie, 2012-10-08. In 2014, alongside with Isabelle Barciulli, Guerrini secured another second place in the World Cup and third place in the Italian championship. Završen 3. Tesla Rally 2014. AllCarCentral, 2014-07-11.
In 2019, Guerrini participated as a driver in the FIA E-Rally Regularity Cup with Emanuele Calchetti in an Audi e-tron, winning the manufacturers' championship and finishing third in the drivers' standings. In 2020, together with Francesca Olivoni, he obtained second place in the overall standings of a shortened FIA ERRC season due to Covid19 and won two races of the Italian Championship with Emanuele Calchetti.
In 2021, he participated in the FIA Cup with Francesca Olivoni and, in the last races of the season, with Artur Prusak, who became his co-driver in 2022, 2023 and 2024 in a Kia eNiro. Together, they won the EcoDolomitesGT in Fiera di Primiero three times (2022, 2023 and 2024), the Winter Eco Rally in Östersund twice (2023 and 2024), and the Azores Eco Rallye (2024) and Mahle Eco Rally in Nova Gorica once (2024).
In 2024, Guerrini and Emanuele Calchetti, driving a Nio ET5, conquered the first EcoRally Cup China, winning 3 of the 5 stages and the final classification at the Greater Huangshan International Ecorally in Anhui province.
In 2025, Guido Guerrini competed under a Sammarinese racing licence, achieving together with Artur Prusak the overall victory in the FIA ecoRally Cup. The result was obtained by winning six events (Comunitat Valenciana, Portugal, Ardenne Roads, Madeira, Monte Carlo and Dolomites) and securing three second and three third places over the 13 rounds of the season. The Gass Racing team duo also won the Iberian Eco Rally Challenge.
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. EcoRally Grecia 2015: ottimo 3º posto per la 500 EcoAbarth a metano di ecomotori. Ecomotori, 2015-10-06 Premi Campioni ACI 2015. NewsAuto, 2016-02-08.
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. Ecomotori Racing Team, vittoria in Grecia. Guido Guerrini campione del mondo. ArezzoNotizie, 2016-10-09. In 2017, Guerrini won the FIA Electric and New Energies Championship, which joined both the previous hybrid and purely electric categories.
In 2026 he took part in the Dakar Rally, alongside Lorenzo Delladio driving a Porsche 939.
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), Comune di Anghiari: Sindaco e Amministrazione Comunale in Comuni-italiani.it. covered 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. Vito Periċ. «Automobilom od Toronta, preko Pekinga, pa do Sinja». Slobodna Dalmacija, 2008-09-19. «Viaġġ ta' 25,852 kilometru bil-karozza... bla qatra petrol». L'Orizzont, 2010-07-10, p. 18. Из Турина в Пекин на автомобиле... через Россию, Италия по-русски, 2008-07-25. 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. Dalla Cina all'Italia a Gpl per la Via della Seta. Ecomobile (n. 79, December 2008): pp. 30-34. «Il Motor Show chiude limitando le perdite». Il Resto del Carlino, 2008-12-15, p. 15. 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 Volgograd with a gas-fuelled Gonow pick-up, crossing Eastern Europe, Moldova, Transnistria, and Ukraine. Il raid con i Suv cinesi Gonow, La Repubblica, 2011-02-22. This experience originated the travel book Via Stalingrado (Stalingrad Street, 2011). "Via Stalingrado", domenica ad Anghiari la presentazione del nuovo libro di Calchetti e Guerrini, ArezzoNotizie, 2011-12-14.
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, Guido Guerrini, viaggiatore, in Calchetti, Guerrini, Via Stalingrado, cited. another travel to Volgograd in December 2013 and January 2014 on an Iveco Daily with a mixed system methane-diesel, Giunta a Volgograd la spedizione dell'Associazione Torino-Pechino. PrimoPianoNotizie, 2013-12-20. the Arezzo-Chernobyl on a methane-propelled Peugeot Expert in the following winter Solidarietà a metano in Ucraina, la partenza da Arezzo. Ecomotori.net, 2014-12-27. and the Milan-Astana on an LPG Seat Altea in 2016. Verso l'Expo 2017 di Astana con una Altea GPL. Ecomotori, 2016-07-28.
In June 2018, he started a new "Turin-Beijing" project on a diesel-methane propelled Toyota Hilux. It is described in the travel book Eurasia.
Results in the FIA AEC Driver + Driver results in the FIA AECSeasonCarCo-driversStartsVictoriesPodiumsPointsRanking 2009 Fiat Marea Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi100520th 2010 Citroën C1 Citroën C5 Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi Emanuele Calchetti70 2 31 5th 2011 Alfa Romeo Mito Andrea Gnaldi Coleschi Emanuele Calchetti Leonardo Burchini70 4 66 2nd 2012 Alfa Romeo Mito Emanuele Calchetti Leonardo Burchini81 5 74 2nd 2013 Alfa Romeo Mito Francesca Olivoni Isabelle Barciulli Emanuele Calchetti60 4 69 2nd 2014 Alfa Romeo Mito Isabelle Barciulli50 4 62 2nd 2016 Abarth 500 Francesca Olivoni1 - - 10 9th 2019 Audi e-tron Emanuele Calchetti 121 795,5 3rd 2020 Audi e-tron Francesca Olivoni 2 - 245 2nd 2021 Volkswagen ID.4 Volkswagen ID.3 Francesca Olivoni Artur Prusak 6 - 246,5 5th 2022 Kia eNiro Artur Prusak 7 2 6105,5 2nd 2023 Kia eNiro Artur Prusak 8 2 480 2nd 2024 Kia eNiro Artur Prusak 12 4 9140,5 2nd 2025 Kia eNiro Nio ET5T Artur Prusak 13 6 12 176,5 1st 2026 Kia eNiro Lancia Ypsilon Artur Prusak 9 - 4 77 3rdTotal10416651083,5 -
Co-driver + Co-driver results in the FIA AECSeasonCarDriversStartsVictoriesPodiumsPointsRanking 2015 Abarth 500 Nicola Ventura625762nd 2016 Renault Zoe Nicola Ventura333301st 2017 Nissan Leaf Hyundai Ioniq Nicola Ventura Vincenzo Di Bella Artur Prusak Svetoslav Dojčinov634381st 2018 Nissan Leaf Renault Zoe Artur Prusak2 -183rdTotal 17 8 13 152 -
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. .