Emanuele Calchetti

Emanuele Calchetti

Emanuele Calchetti at the Hi-Tech Ecomobility Rally. Athens, 7 October 2012.
Nationality Italy Italian
Born (1981-02-02) February 2, 1981
Sansepolcro
FIA Alternative Energies Cup career
Current team Alfa Romeo
Championship titles
2012 FIA Alternative Energies Cup

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]

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]

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).[10][11] In 2016 he voiced the Italian character of Gianni, played by Enzo Cilenti, in the Russian version of British film Bridget Jones's Baby.

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 (Italian) Belgrado incorona Emanuele Calchetti campione del mondo co-piloti. 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. (Italian) Trionfo di Imega a Monza. ArezzoNotizie, 05-31-2010.
  4. (Italian) Michele Lupetti, Guerrini-Calchetti ancora sugli scudi a Franciacorta. ValdichianaOggi, 08-29-2010.
  5. (Italian) Imega è vicecampione del mondo FIA. Ecomotori, 10-18-2011.
  6. (Italian) Guerrini-Calchetti ora secondi nel mondiale. Valtiberina Informa, 09-26-2011.
  7. (Italian) Strepitoso successo della scuderia Imega-Boninsegni in Grecia. SaturnoNotizie, 10-08-2012.
  8. (Italian) Energia alternativa, due biturgensi sul podio della Coppa del Mondo Fia. ArezzoNotizie, 10-01-2012.
  9. (Italian) Franco Lombardi, Il Tesla Eco Rally a Belgrado. Auto d'Epoca, n. 1 (341), january 2013, p. 114.
  10. (Italian) Via Stalingrado. Quattroruote n. 676, February 2012, page 34.
  11. (Italian) Simone Lupino, L'odissea green verso Volgograd. Russia Oggi, 11-29-2013.
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