Emanuele Calchetti

Emanuele Calchetti (Italian pronunciation: [emanuˈɛːle kalˈketti]; born 2 February 1981 in Sansepolcro) is an Italian rally co-driver, in 2012 FIA Alternative Energies World Champion.[1]

Emanuele Calchetti
Emanuele Calchetti at the start of the Czech New Energies Rallye. Rainbach im Mühlkreis, May 16, 2019.
Nationality Italian
Born (1981-02-02) 2 February 1981
Sansepolcro
FIA Electric and New Energy Championship career
Current teamAudi
Former teamsCitroën, Alfa Romeo
Starts30
Wins2
Championship titles
2012FIA Alternative Energies Cup
Last updated on: 10-29-2019.

Biography

Calchetti has participated in the FIA Alternative Energies World Champion since 2010. During that season, with the driver Guido Guerrini, he won the regularity standings[2] of the circuit race in Monza (with Citroën C1)[3] and Franciacorta (Citroën C5).[4]

In 2011, with Alfa Romeo Mito, he gained the second place in San Marino[5] and the third place in Athens.[6]

In 2012, again with Alfa Romeo Mito, Calchetti became World Champion in the co-drivers' category,[1] winning in Athens[7] and arriving second in Montréal[8] and Belgrade.[1][9]

In 2019 he came back to the races with Guido Guerrini on an Audi e-tron in the FIA E-Rally Regularity Cup. Toscan crew won in Switzerland (Rallye du Chablais) and reached the podium other six times, finishing the season at the third place of the general standings and winning the manufacturers' championship.[10]

Journalist, Calchetti is since 2008 a member of the City council of Sansepolcro.[1] In 2011 he wrote with Guido Guerrini the travel book Via Stalingrado (Stalingrad Road).[11][12] In 2016 he voiced the Italian character of Gianni, played by Enzo Cilenti, in the Russian version of British film Bridget Jones's Baby.[13]

Bibliography
  • (in Italian) Emanuele Calchetti, Guido Guerrini, Via Stalingrado, Petruzzi Editore, Città di Castello, 2011, pp. 216. ISBN 978-88-89797-31-0.
  • (in Italian) Emanuele Calchetti, Socialismo lunare, in 70 ore nel futuro, Fuorionda, 2013, pp. 180. ISBN 978-88-97426-42-4.
  • (in Italian) Emanuele Calchetti, Siberia, in Guido Guerrini, Eurasia. Dall'Atlantico al Pacifico con il gas naturale, Sansepolcro, 2018. ISBN 978-88-94407-60-0.
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References
  1. (in Italian) Belgrado incorona Emanuele Calchetti campione del mondo co-piloti Archived 2012-11-02 at the Wayback Machine. ArezzoNotizie, 10-29-2012.
  2. Until 2010 for the FIA world championship general standing didn't count the regularity classification, but the combined results of regularity and consumptions.
  3. (in Italian) Trionfo di Imega a Monza. ArezzoNotizie, 05-31-2010.
  4. (in Italian) Michele Lupetti, Guerrini-Calchetti ancora sugli scudi a Franciacorta. ValdichianaOggi, 08-29-2010.
  5. (in Italian) Imega è vicecampione del mondo FIA Archived 2012-03-05 at the Wayback Machine. Ecomotori, 10-18-2011.
  6. (in Italian) Guerrini-Calchetti ora secondi nel mondiale Archived 2013-01-12 at Archive.today. Valtiberina Informa, 09-26-2011.
  7. (in Italian) Strepitoso successo della scuderia Imega-Boninsegni in Grecia. SaturnoNotizie, 10-08-2012.
  8. (in Italian) Energia alternativa, due biturgensi sul podio della Coppa del Mondo Fia Archived 2013-01-08 at Archive.today. ArezzoNotizie, 10-01-2012.
  9. (in Italian) Franco Lombardi, Il Tesla Eco Rally a Belgrado. Auto d'Epoca, n. 1 (341), january 2013, p. 114.
  10. "Classifications - Season 2019". www.fia.com. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  11. (in Italian) Via Stalingrado. Quattroruote n. 676, February 2012, page 34.
  12. (in Italian) Simone Lupino, L'odissea green verso Volgograd. Russia Oggi, 11-29-2013.
  13. Преподаватель Эмануэле Калькетти. www.centro-italiano.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2019-04-17. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
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