Vittoriano Guareschi

Vittoriano Guareschi (born 19 June 1971) is an Italian former professional motorcycle racer and racing team manager. He competed in the Supersport World Championship from 1996 to 1998 and in the Superbike World Championship from 1999 to 2000. After his racing career he helped Ducati develop their new MotoGP entry as a test rider before becoming the team manager of the Ducati MotoGP team.

Vittoriano Guareschi
NationalityItalian
Born (1971-06-19) 19 June 1971
Parma
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Superbike World Championship
Active years1999–2000
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
49 0 2 0 0 145
Supersport World Championship
Active years1997–1998, 2001, 2004
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
33 4 10 6 4 344

Career

Guareschi was born in Parma, Italy as the son of a Parmesan Moto Guzzi distributor. He began his racing career in 1988 at the age of 17.[1] He raced for the Cagiva factory racing team in the 125 cc Italian national championship alongside his teammate and future world champion, Valentino Rossi.[2] Guareschi progressed to the 600 cc Italian national championship where, he finished in third place in three consecutive seasons between 1992 and 1994.[1] In 1995, he won the Italian Supermono national championship for single-cylinder motorcycles aboard a Yamaha SZR660.[1]

Guareschi made his international racing debut in 1996, competing in the European Supersport Championship for the Italian Belgarda-Yamaha team. He secured three podium results and finished in fifth place in the championship. In 1997, he competed in the Supersport World Championship, winning three races and narrowly losing the championship by one point to Ducati rider Paolo Casoli.[3] He repeated as runnerup in the 1998 Supersport World Championship, this time to Suzuki rider, Fabrizio Pirovano.[3]

In 1999, Guareschi and the Belgarda-Yamaha team fielded a Yamaha YZF-R7 in the Superbike World Championship, where he secured one podium result with a third place at the A1-Ring in Austria, and finished the year ranked tenth in the world championship.[3] In 2000, he was joined on the Belgarda team by Noriyuki Haga. Guareschi scored another podium result with a third place at Phillip Island in Australia, but dropped to twentieth in the season final standings.[3]

Guareschi joined the Ducati factory racing team in 2001, competing aboard a Ducati 748 in the Supersport World Championship and finishing the season in sixteenth place.[3] After the 2001 season, Guareschi stopped racing to become the development rider for the Ducati factory racing team's new MotoGP entry, the Desmosedici.[4] He raced one final time, entering the Monza round of the 2004 Supersport World Championship, where he finished in eighth place.[3] Guareschi continued in his role as Ducati's chief development rider until 5 November 2009, when he was named as team manager of the Ducati MotoGP team, succeeding the Honda-bound Livio Suppo.[5]

At the end of the 2013 MotoGP season, Guareschi resigned his position with Ducati to take on the role of team manager for Valentino Rossi's Sky Racing Team by VR46 in the Moto3 category.[6] He left the team in September 2014.[7]

Superbike World Championship results[3]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Machine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Pos Pts
R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2
1999 Belgarda-Yamaha YZF-R7 RSA
12		 RSA
13		 AUS
13		 AUS
15		 GBR
16		 GBR
Ret		 ESP
9		 ESP
9		 ITA
11		 ITA
10		 GER
7		 GER
9		 SMR
9		 SMR
8		 USA
Ret		 USA
Ret		 EUR
15		 EUR
14		 AUT
3		 AUT
Ret		 NED
13		 NED
Ret		 GER
10		 GER
12		 JPN JPN 10th 99
2000 Belgarda-Yamaha YZF-R7 RSA
15		 RSA
Ret		 AUS
3		 AUS
Ret		 JPN
Ret		 JPN
Ret		 GBR
NC		 GBR
14		 ITA
12		 ITA
Ret		 GER
23		 GER
13		 SMR
Ret		 SMR
16		 ESP
12		 ESP
13		 USA
Ret		 USA
DNS		 GBR
19		 GBR
12		 NED
15		 NED
Ret		 GER
Ret		 GER
Ret		 GBR
12		 GBR
12		 20th 46

References
  1. "Vittoriano Guareschi at Guareschi Moto". guareschimoto.it. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  2. MCN Sport, Winter 2010, p. 28, Bauer Automotive, Petersborough, Cambs. ISSN 1473-768X
  3. "Vittoriano Guareschi statistics". worldsbk.com. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  4. "800cc Ducati MotoGP Bike Breaks Cover". superbikeplanet.com. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  5. "MotoGP : Project Manager Livio Suppo leaves the Ducati Marlboro team". f1sa.com. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  6. "Guareschi - A 'father' to Fenati and Bagnaia". motogp.com. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  7. "Moto3: Guareschi leaves Rossi's VR46 team". Crash.net. Crash Media Group. 4 September 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
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