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Alessandro Pier Guidi
Alessandro Pier Guidi
	Pier Guidi in 2023
Nationality	Italian
Born	December 18, 1983 (age 40); Tortona (Italy)
Wins	24 Hours of Le Mans 2023 (overall Winner); 24 Hours of Le Mans 2019 GTE Pro Class Winner; GT World Endurance Champions 2017; GT World Challenge 2020 Champions with AF Corse; Petit Le Mans 2019 GTLM class winner with Risi Competizione; Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona 2014 GTD Class Winner with Level 5 Motorsports (Ferrari 458GTD Italia)
Previous series
2009; 2008; 2008; 2006-2007; 2007; 2007; 2006; 2006; 2006; 2006; 2006; 2005; 2005	FIA GT Championship; Superleague Formula; FIA GT Championship; A1 Grand Prix; FIA GT Championship; International GT Open; F3000 International Masters; FIA GT Championship; International GT Open; Italian GT Championship; Spanish GT Championship; Italian GT Championship; Spanish GT Championship
Championship titles
2021; 2017; 2017	Intercontinental GT Challenge; Italian GT Championship GT2; FIA World Endurance Championship

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Alessandro Pier Guidi (born December 18, 1983) is a racing driver from Italy. A Ferrari factory driver since 2017, he won the LMGTE Pro FIA World Endurance Championship in 2017, 2021 and 2022, the 2019 and 2021 24 Hours of Le Mans LMGTE Pro, the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 2021 24 Hours of Spa.

In 2014, driving a Level 5 Motorsport Ferrari F458 Italia, he won the GT Daytona (GTD) class at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, one of the premier motor races in the American Tudor United SportsCar Championship.

In 2017, Ferrari reached a technical and racing agreement with Alessandro Pier Guidi. The Italian driver competed in the 2017 season of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) pairing up with James Calado in the 488 GTE No. 51 managed on the track by the AF Corse team. Currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship for AF Corse, he is the current World Champion, alongside his fellow James Calado, in LMGTE Pro class, after winning the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship.

Pier Guidi joined the other official Ferrari GT race drivers. He was named as one of the drivers for Ferrari's No. 51 Hypercar for the 2023 season. Along with James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi, Pier Guidi won the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Early career

Pier Guidi began racing karts in 1994, a discipline he remained in until 2001. During that time, he would win the Torneo delle Industrie multiple times and took home the Italian Junior Championship in 1997.^[1]^[2] In 2002, the Italian progressed to single-seaters, driving in the Italian Formula Renault series. After a two-year hiatus from racing, Pier Guidi moved over into GT racing in 2005. Success swiftly followed, as he won the Italian GT Championship in the GT2 class and finished third in the Spanish GT Championship, having missed two rounds.

The following season, Pier Guidi made a step back into the single-seater scene, competing in two rounds of the F3000 International Masters. As well as that, the Italian finished fourth in the International GT Open and once again took third overall in the Spanish series.^[3] At the end of 2006, Pier Guidi joined A1 Team Italy for the opening pair of that season's A1 Grand Prix events.

After a one-off appearance in 2006, the GT1 category in the FIA GT Championship became Pier Guidi's home for 2007. Driving for Scuderia Playteam Sarafree, the Italian would finish the season in ninth place.

In 2008, Pier Guidi would be signed by Galatasaray S.K., run by Scuderia Playteam, to race in the Superleague Formula series.^[4] The Italian scored three third-placed finishes and ended up eighth in the championship.

Racing record

Superleague Formula

(Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Operator	1		2		3		4		5		6		Position	Points
2008	Galatasaray S.K.	Scuderia Playteam	DON		NÜR		ZOL		EST		VAL		JER		8th	277
2008	Galatasaray S.K.	Scuderia Playteam	13	13	3	7	14	12	7	3	3	11	18	4	8th	277

Complete GT1 World Championship results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos	Points
2010	Triple H Team Hegersport	Maserati	ABU QR	ABU CR	SIL QR	SIL CR	BRN QR	BRN CR	PRI QR	PRI CR	SPA QR	SPA CR	NÜR QR Ret	NÜR CR 9	ALG QR 18	ALG CR 19	NAV QR 2	NAV CR 11	INT QR	INT CR	SAN QR 8	SAN CR Ret	38th	8

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2014	AF Corse	LMGTE AM	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Ferrari 4.5 L V8	SIL	SPA	LMS	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR 7	SÃO 6		18th	16
2016	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 488 GTE	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	SIL	SPA	LMS Ret	NÜR	MEX	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	27th	1
2017	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 488 GTE	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	SIL 2	SPA 2	LMS 14	NÜR 1	MEX 6	COA 1	FUJ 1	SHA 3	BHR 2	1st	153
2018–19	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 488 GTE	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	SPA 15	LMS 4	SIL 1	FUJ 4	SHA 5	SEB 4	SPA 2	LMS 1		2nd	136.5
2019–20	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	SIL 4	FUJ 4	SHA 1	BHR 4	COA 3	SPA 4	LMS 2	BHR		6th	131
2021	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	SPA 2	ALG 1	MNZ 2	LMS 1	BHR 3	BHR 1				1st	177
2022	AF Corse	LMGTE Pro	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	SEB 4	SPA 1	LMS 2	MNZ 3	FUJ 1	BHR 5				1st	135
2023	Ferrari AF Corse	Hypercar	Ferrari 499P	Ferrari 3.0 L Turbo V6	SEB 7	PRT 6	SPA 3	LMS 1	MNZ 5	FUJ 5	BHR 6			4th	114
2024	Ferrari AF Corse	Hypercar	Ferrari 499P	Ferrari 3.0 L Turbo V6	QAT	IMO	SPA	LMS	SÃO	COA	FUJ	BHR		*	*

^* Season still in progress.

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2016	AF Corse	Gianmaria Bruni James Calado	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE Pro	179	DNF	DNF
2017	AF Corse	Michele Rugolo James Calado	Ferrari 488 GTE	GTE Pro	312	46th	11th
2018	AF Corse	James Calado Daniel Serra	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	GTE Pro	339	22nd	7th
2019	AF Corse	James Calado Daniel Serra	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	GTE Pro	342	20th	1st
2020	AF Corse	James Calado Daniel Serra	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	GTE Pro	346	21st	2nd
2021	AF Corse	James Calado Côme Ledogar	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	GTE Pro	345	20th	1st
2022	AF Corse	James Calado Daniel Serra	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	GTE Pro	350	29th	2nd
2023	Ferrari AF Corse	James Calado Antonio Giovinazzi	Ferrari 499P	Hypercar	342	1st	1st

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

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

Year	Team	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos.	Points
2022	Risi Competizione	GTD Pro	Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	DAY 2	SEB	LBH	LGA	WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	PET		23rd	340
2023	Risi Competizione	GTD Pro	Ferrari 296 GT3	Ferrari 3.0 L Turbo V6	DAY 10	SEB	LBH	MON	WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	IMS	PET	-*	0*

United SportsCar Championship

2014 (GTD)

Level 5 Motorsports won the 2014 24 Hours of Daytona in the GT Daytona class with its No. 555 Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 of Scott Tucker, Townsend Bell, Bill Sweedler, Jeff Segal and Alessandro Pier Guidi, despite the car having initially been handed a penalty for late-race avoidable contact. IMSA reversed the call more than four hours after the race, declaring the No. 555 car the winners in GTD.^[5]

References

^ "Alessandro Pier Guidi | Racing career profile | Driver Database". legacy.driverdb.com. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
^ "Alessandro Pier Guidi". Retrieved 20 June 2019.
^ "Championships | Driver Database". www.driverdb.com. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
^ English, Steven (7 August 2008). "Doornbos tops first Superleague test". Autosport. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 15 August 2008.
^ DiZinno, Tony (January 26, 2014). "Level 5 wins Rolex 24 in GTD after penalty overturned". NBC Sports. Archived from the original on February 3, 2014. Retrieved June 14, 2015.

External links

Alessandro Pier Guidi career summary at DriverDB.com
GT Open Database

Sporting positions
Preceded by Nicki Thiim Marco Sørensen	World Endurance GT Drivers' Championship Champion 2017 With: James Calado	Succeeded by Michael Christensen Kevin Estre
Preceded by Marco Mapelli Andrea Caldarelli (Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup)	GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup Champion 2020-2021 With: Nicklas Nielsen & Côme Ledogar (2021)	Succeeded by Raffaele Marciello Daniel Juncadella Jules Gounon
Preceded by Nicki Thiim Marco Sørensen	World Endurance GT Drivers' Championship Champion 2021-2022 With: James Calado	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by Nicky Catsburg Augusto Farfus	Intercontinental GT Challenge Champion 2021–22 With: Côme Ledogar	Succeeded by Daniel Juncadella
Preceded by Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryō Hirakawa	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2023 With: James Calado & Antonio Giovinazzi	Succeeded by Incumbent

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[1] "Alessandro Pier Guidi | Racing career profile | Driver Database". legacy.driverdb.com. Retrieved 2023-12-18.

[2] "Alessandro Pier Guidi". Retrieved 20 June 2019.

[3] "Championships | Driver Database". www.driverdb.com. Retrieved 2023-12-18.

[first_test-4] English, Steven (7 August 2008). "Doornbos tops first Superleague test". Autosport. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 15 August 2008.

[5] DiZinno, Tony (January 26, 2014). "Level 5 wins Rolex 24 in GTD after penalty overturned". NBC Sports. Archived from the original on February 3, 2014. Retrieved June 14, 2015.

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 '''Alessandro Pier Guidi''' (born December 18, 1983) is a racing driver from Italy. A Ferrari factory driver since 2017, he won the LMGTE Pro [[2017 FIA World Endurance Championship|FIA World Endurance Championship]] in 2017, 2021 and 2022, the [[2019 24 Hours of Le Mans|2019]] and [[2021 24 Hours of Le Mans|2021]] [[24 Hours of Le Mans]] LMGTE Pro, the [[2023 24 Hours of Le Mans]] and the [[2021 24 Hours of Spa]].
+In 2014, driving a Level 5 Motorsport Ferrari F458 Italia, he won the GT Daytona (GTD) class at the Rolex [[24 Hours of Daytona]], one of the premier motor races in the American Tudor [[United SportsCar Championship]].
-Pier Guidi drove a [[Ferrari 430]] GT in the [[Spanish GT Championship]] and [[Italian GT Championship]] in 2005 and 2006, for the Scuderia Playteam. He won the 2005 Italian title, but missed out on the Spanish crown due to missing one race alongside team owner Giambasttista Giannocaro. In 2007 he moved to the [[FIA GT Championship]], driving a [[Maserati MC12]]. He has also driven in the [[Italian Formula 3000]] Championship.
-He drove two races for the [[A1 Team Italy|Italian]] A1 Team. In 2008, he drove the [[Galatasaray SK]] car in the [[Superleague Formula]], scoring three podium finishes and taking the team to eighth overall in the final standings. In 2014, driving a Level 5 Motorsport Ferrari F458 Italia, he won the GT Daytona (GTD) class at the Rolex [[24 Hours of Daytona]], one of the premier motor races in the American Tudor [[United SportsCar Championship]].
 In 2017, Ferrari reached a technical and racing agreement with Alessandro Pier Guidi. The Italian driver competed in the 2017 season of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) pairing up with James Calado in the 488 GTE No. 51 managed on the track by the AF Corse team. Currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship for AF Corse, he is the current World Champion, alongside his fellow [[James Calado]], in LMGTE Pro class, after winning the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship.
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 ==Early career==
 Pier Guidi began racing karts in 1994, a discipline he remained in until 2001. During that time, he would win the Torneo delle Industrie multiple times and took home the Italian Junior Championship in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alessandro Pier Guidi {{!}} Racing career profile {{!}} Driver Database |url=https://legacy.driverdb.com/drivers/alessandro-pier-guidi/ |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=legacy.driverdb.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cita web|url=https://races.ferrari.com/it/competizioni-gt/drivers/alessandro-pier-guidi/|titolo=Alessandro Pier Guidi|accesso=20 giugno 2019}}</ref> In 2002, the Italian progressed to single-seaters, driving in the [[Formula Renault Italy|Italian Formula Renault]] series. After a two-year hiatus from racing, Pier Guidi moved over into GT racing in 2005. Success swiftly followed, as he won the Italian GT Championship in the GT2 class and finished third in the Spanish GT Championship, having missed two rounds.
+The following season, Pier Guidi made a step back into the single-seater scene, competing in two rounds of the [[2006 F3000 International Masters|F3000 International Masters]]. As well as that, the Italian finished fourth in the [[2006 International GT Open|International GT Open]] and once again took third overall in the Spanish series.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Championships {{!}} Driver Database |url=https://www.driverdb.com/championships/international-gt-open-gta/2006 |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=www.driverdb.com}}</ref> At the end of 2006, Pier Guidi joined [[A1 Team Italy]] for the opening pair of that season's [[2006–07 A1 Grand Prix season|A1 Grand Prix]] events.
+After a one-off appearance in 2006, the GT1 category in the [[2007 FIA GT Championship|FIA GT Championship]] became Pier Guidi's home for 2007. Driving for [[Scuderia Playteam|Scuderia Playteam Sarafree]], the Italian would finish the season in ninth place.
+In 2008, Pier Guidi would be signed by [[Galatasaray S.K. (Superleague Formula team)|Galatasaray S.K.]], run by [[Scuderia Playteam]], to race in the [[2008 Superleague Formula season|Superleague Formula]] series.<ref name="first test">{{cite news |last=English |first=Steven |date=7 August 2008 |title=Doornbos tops first Superleague test |work=[[Autosport]] |publisher=[[Haymarket Group|Haymarket Publications]] |url=http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/69701 |access-date=15 August 2008}}</ref> The Italian scored three third-placed finishes and ended up eighth in the championship.
 ==Racing record==

v t e Ferrari Competizione Factory Drivers
Works Drivers	James Calado (2014—) Davide Rigon (2014—) Miguel Molina (2017—) Alessandro Pier Guidi (2017—) Nicklas Nielsen (2020—) Daniel Serra (2020—) Antonio Fuoco (2022—) Alessio Rovera (2022—) Antonio Giovinazzi (2023—) Robert Shwartzman (2023—) Lilou Wadoux (2023—) Thomas Neubauer (2024—) Yifei Ye (2024—)
Development Drivers	Andrea Bertolini (2012—)
Ambassadors	Toni Vilander (2007—) Giancarlo Fisichella (2010—) Olivier Beretta (2012—)

v t e Galatasaray S.K. in Superleague Formula
Seasons competed	2008 2009 2010 2011
Drivers	Alessandro Pier Guidi (2008) Duncan Tappy (2009) Scott Mansell (2009) Ho-Pin Tung (2009) Tristan Gommendy (2010) Giacomo Ricci (2010) Chris van der Drift (2010) Andy Soucek (2010-11)
Operating teams	Scuderia Playteam (2008) Ultimate Motorsport (2009) Reid Motorsport (2009) Barazi-Epsilon (2010) GU-Racing International (2010) Drivex (2010) DeVillota.com Motorsport (2011)

v t e FIA World Endurance Championship champions
World Endurance Drivers' Championship	2012 André Lotterer Benoît Tréluyer Marcel Fässler 2013 Allan McNish Tom Kristensen Loïc Duval 2014 Anthony Davidson Sébastien Buemi 2015 Timo Bernhard Mark Webber Brendon Hartley 2016 Marc Lieb Romain Dumas Neel Jani 2017 Timo Bernhard Brendon Hartley Earl Bamber 2018–19 Sébastien Buemi Fernando Alonso Kazuki Nakajima 2019–20 Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi José María López 2021 Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi José María López 2022 Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryō Hirakawa
World Endurance GT Drivers' Championship	2013 Gianmaria Bruni 2014 Gianmaria Bruni Toni Vilander 2015 Richard Lietz 2016 Nicki Thiim Marco Sørensen 2017 James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi 2018–19 Michael Christensen Kévin Estre 2019–20 Marco Sørensen Nicki Thiim 2021 James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi 2022 James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi
List of champions

v t e Winners of the 24 Hours of Le Mans
Nine-time	Tom Kristensen
Six-time	Jacky Ickx
Five-time	Derek Bell Frank Biela Emanuele Pirro
Four-time	Sébastien Buemi Yannick Dalmas Olivier Gendebien Henri Pescarolo
Three-time	Woolf Barnato Rinaldo Capello Luigi Chinetti Marcel Fässler Brendon Hartley Hurley Haywood Phil Hill Al Holbert André Lotterer Klaus Ludwig Allan McNish Kazuki Nakajima Benoît Tréluyer Marco Werner
Two-time	Fernando Alonso Earl Bamber Timo Bernhard Tim Birkin Ivor Bueb Romain Dumas Ron Flockhart Jean-Pierre Jaussaud Gérard Larrousse JJ Lehto Manuel Reuter André Rossignol Raymond Sommer Hans-Joachim Stuck Gijs van Lennep Jean-Pierre Wimille Alexander Wurz
One-time	Aïello Alboreto Amon Ara Attwood Baldi Bandini Barilla Barth Benjafield Benoist Bianchi Bloch Blundell Bouchut D. Brabham G. Brabham Brundle Calado Chaboud Clement Cobb Conway Davis de Courcelles Dickens Duff Dumfries Duval Étancelin Fontés Foyt Frère Fuoco Gachot Gené Giovinazzi González Gregory Guichet Gurney Hamilton Hawthorn Hélary Herbert Herrmann G. Hill Hindmarsh Hirakawa Howe Hülkenberg Jani Johansson Jones Kidston Kobayashi Krages Lagache Lammers Lang Léonard Lieb López Marko Martini Mass McLaren Mitchell-Thomson Molina J. Nielsen N. Nielsen Nuvolari Oliver Ortelli Pier Guidi Pironi Riess Rindt Rockenfeller Rodríguez Rolt Rondeau J. Rosier L. Rosier Rubin Salvadori Sanderson Scarfiotti Schuppan Sekiya Shelby Smith Tandy Trémoulet Trintignant Vaccarella Veyron Walker Wallace Warwick Weidler Whitehead B. Whittington D. Whittington Winkelhock