) is a former professional motorcycle

Motorcycle

A motorcycle is a single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicle. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as long distance travel, navigating congested urban traffic, cruising, sport and racing, or off-road conditions.Motorcycles are one of the most...

 road racer

Road racing

Road racing is a general term for most forms of motor racing held on paved, purpose-built race tracks , as opposed to oval tracks and off-road racing...

 and current team manager for the Ducati Corse

Ducati Corse

Ducati Corse S.r.l. is a subsidiary arm of Ducati that deals with the firm's involvement in motorcycle racing. It is directed by Claudio Domenicali and is based inside Bologna, in quartiere Borgo Panigale. More than one hundred people work in Ducati Corse...

 factory racing team in MotoGP.

The son of a Parmesan Moto Guzzi

Moto Guzzi

Moto Guzzi is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer. It is one of seven brands owned by Piaggio.Established in 1921 in Mandello del Lario, Italy, the company is noted for its central historic role in Italy's motorcycling manufacture, its prominence worldwide in motorcycle racing, and a series of...

 distributor, Guareschi began his racing career in 1988 at the age of 17. He raced for the Cagiva

Cagiva

Cagiva is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer. It was founded in 1950 by Giovanni Castiglioni in Varese, originally producing small metal components. It went into the motorcycle industry in 1978. The name is a portmanteau derived from the founder and the founding location, i.e. CAstiglioni GIovanni...

 factory racing team in the 125 cc Italian national championship alongside his teammate and future world champion, Valentino Rossi

Valentino Rossi

Valentino Rossi, , is an Italian professional motorcycle racer and multiple MotoGP World Champion. He is one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time, with nine Grand Prix World Championships to his name – seven of which are in the premier class.Following his father, Graziano Rossi,...

. Guareschi progressed to the 600 cc Italian national championship where, he finished in third place in three consecutive seasons between 1992 and 1994. In 1995, he won the Italian Supermono

Supermono

Supermono is a class in European motorcycle road racing. Supermono class machines have a single-cylinder engine with a maximum displacement of 850 cc....

 national championship for single-cylinder motorcycles aboard a Yamaha SZR660

Yamaha SZR660

Yamaha SZR660 is a single-cylinder sportbike produced by Yamaha Motor Corporation from 1996 to 2001. It shares engine with Yamaha's XT660 line of dual-purpose on/off road motorcycles, but employs this engine within a Supermono package....

.

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

Paolo Casoli

Paolo Casoli was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. His best year in Grands Prix was in 1987, when he won the 125cc Portuguese Grand Prix and finished in third place in the 125cc world championship...

. He repeated as runnerup in the 1998 Supersport World Championship, this time to Suzuki rider, Fabrizio Pirovano

Fabrizio Pirovano

Fabrizio Pirovano is a former motorcycle road racer from Biassono.When the Superbike World Championship began in , he was one of its first entrants, finishing as championship runner-up in and , and in the top five four other times. He won 10 races and took 37 further podium finishes. He is in the...

.

In 1999

1999 Superbike World Championship season

The 1999 Superbike World Championship season was the 12th F.I.M. Superbike World Championship season. The season started on March 28 at Kyalami, and finished on October 10 at Sugo after 13 rounds....

, Guareschi and the Belgarda-Yamaha team fielded a Yamaha YZF-R7

Yamaha YZF-R7

The Yamaha YZF-R7 OW02 is a race homologation motorcycle of limited production run of only 500 units. It was designed to compete in the Superbike World Championship and Suzuka 8 Hours endurance races....

 in the Superbike World Championship

Superbike World Championship

Superbike World Championship is the worldwide Superbike racing Championship. The championship was founded in . The Superbike World Championship season consists of a series of rounds held on permanent racing facilities...

 where, he secured one podium result with a third place at the Zeltweg Airfield

Zeltweg Airfield

Zeltweg Airfield, now known as Fliegerhorst Hinterstoisser, is a military airfield in Styria, Austria near Zeltweg. It is the main airfield of the Austrian Air Force.-Motorsports:...

 Circuit in Austria and, finished the year ranked tenth in the world championship. In 2000

2000 Superbike World Championship season

The 2000 Superbike World Championship season was the 13th F.I.M. Superbike World Championship season. The season started on April 2 at Kyalami, and finished on October 15 at Brands Hatch after 13 rounds....

, he was joined on the Belgarda team by Noriyuki Haga

Noriyuki Haga

, is a Japanese professional motorcycle racer. Haga has been runner-up in the Superbike World Championship three times, and has finished 3rd in the series four times....

. Guareschi scored another podium result with a third place at Phillip Island

Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit

The Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit is a motor racing racing circuit on Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia. The circuit was opened in 1956.-Road circuit:...

 in Australia but, dropped to twentieth in the season final standings.

Guareschi joined the Ducati factory racing team in 2001, competing aboard a Ducati 748

Ducati 748

The Ducati 748 was the smaller version of the Ducati 916, an Italian sports motorcycle manufactured by Ducati from 1994 to 2002. It was succeeded by the Ducati 749.-Design:The Ducati 748 is identical in almost every way to the 916...

 in the Supersport World Championship and finishing the season in sixteenth place. After the 2001 season, Guareschi stopped racing to become the development rider for the Ducati factory racing team's new MotoGP entry, the Desmosedici

Ducati Desmosedici

Ducati Desmosedici is the name of the series of four-stroke V4 Prototype Motorcycles developed by Ducati to compete in the MotoGP World Championship. GPx indicates the version of the bike, where x corresponds to the year the bike raced .- Background :Ducati abandoned the Grand Prix racing scene at...

. He raced one final time, entering the Monza

Autodromo Nazionale Monza

The Autodromo Nazionale Monza is a race track located near the town of Monza, north of Milan, in Italy. The circuit's biggest event is the Formula One Italian Grand Prix, which has been hosted there since the sport's inception....

 round of the 2004 Supersport World Championship season

2004 Supersport World Championship season

The 2004 Supersport World Championship season was the 6th F.I.M. Supersport World Championship season. The season started on February 29 at Valencia, and finished on October 3 at Magny-Cours after 10 races....

 where, he finished in eighth place. Guareschi continued in his role as Ducati's chief development rider until November 5, 2009 when, he was named as team manager of the Ducati MotoGP team, succeeding Livio Luppo.

World Superbike Championship results

(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 1999 Superbike World Championship season The 1999 Superbike World Championship season was the 12th F.I.M. Superbike World Championship season. The season started on March 28 at Kyalami, and finished on October 10 at Sugo after 13 rounds....	Belgarda-Yamaha Yamaha Motor Company , is a Japanese motorized vehicle-producing company. Yamaha Motor is part of Yamaha Corporation and its headquarter is located in Iwata, Shizuoka. Along with expanding Yamaha Corporation into the world's biggest piano maker, then Yamaha CEO Genichi Kawakami took Yamaha into the field of motorized...	YZF-R7 Yamaha YZF-R7 The Yamaha YZF-R7 OW02 is a race homologation motorcycle of limited production run of only 500 units. It was designed to compete in the Superbike World Championship and Suzuka 8 Hours endurance races....	RSA 1999 Kyalami Superbike World Championship round The 1999 Kyalami Superbike World Championship round was the opening round of the 1999 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of 26-28 March 1999 at the 4.26km Kyalami Circuit in South Africa.... 12	RSA 1999 Kyalami Superbike World Championship round The 1999 Kyalami Superbike World Championship round was the opening round of the 1999 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of 26-28 March 1999 at the 4.26km Kyalami Circuit in South Africa.... 13	AUS 13	AUS 15	GBR -	GBR -	ESP 9	ESP 9	ITA 11	ITA 10	GER 1999 Nürburgring Superbike World Championship round The 1999 Nürburgring Superbike World Championship Round was the 6th round of the 1999 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of 11-13 June 1999 at the Nürburgring. It was highly criticised by the riders after track officials failed to show race flags... 7	GER 1999 Nürburgring Superbike World Championship round The 1999 Nürburgring Superbike World Championship Round was the 6th round of the 1999 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of 11-13 June 1999 at the Nürburgring. It was highly criticised by the riders after track officials failed to show race flags... 9	SMR 9	SMR 8	USA -	USA -	EUR 15	EUR 14	AUT 3	AUT -	NED 13	NED -	GER 10	GER 12	JPN -	JPN -	10th	99
2000 2000 Superbike World Championship season The 2000 Superbike World Championship season was the 13th F.I.M. Superbike World Championship season. The season started on April 2 at Kyalami, and finished on October 15 at Brands Hatch after 13 rounds....	Belgarda-Yamaha Yamaha Motor Company , is a Japanese motorized vehicle-producing company. Yamaha Motor is part of Yamaha Corporation and its headquarter is located in Iwata, Shizuoka. Along with expanding Yamaha Corporation into the world's biggest piano maker, then Yamaha CEO Genichi Kawakami took Yamaha into the field of motorized...	YZF-R7 Yamaha YZF-R7 The Yamaha YZF-R7 OW02 is a race homologation motorcycle of limited production run of only 500 units. It was designed to compete in the Superbike World Championship and Suzuka 8 Hours endurance races....	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 -	GBR 19	GBR 12	NED 15	NED RET	GER RET	GER RET	GBR 12	GBR 12	20th	46

External links

• Vittoriano Guareschi racing career bio
• Ducati Corse home page
• Vittoriano Guareschi interview at crash.net