Fabrizio Pirovano

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Fabrizio Pirovano (born February 1, 1960) is an is a motorcycle racer from Biassono.

When the Superbike World Championship began in 1988, he was one of its first entrants, finishing as championship runner-up in 1988 and 1990, and in the top five four other times. He won 10 races and took 37 further podium finishes. He is in the championship's all-time top 10 for starts, points and podiums.[1] Curiously he never took a WSBK pole position. He has also won the Italian Superbike title four times.[2]

By the mid-1990s WSBK had more international stars (such as Troy Corser and Carl Fogarty and Pirovano was less competitive. In 1995 2nd at the season-opener at Hockenheim was his only podium, and he left the championship after this year. He returned to racing in the Supersport World Championship in 1997. He was champion with five wins in 1998, and finished in the top 10 in the four other seasons he contested. In 2001 his best results were a pair of 5th places,[3] and this proved to be his last full season. As of 2006 he is semi-retired, but won a one-off race in the Suzuki GSX-R Cup at Misano in June 2006.[4]

[edit] Reference

  1. ^ World Superbike 2006 - Round Two - Phillip Island
  2. ^ Motorcycle Racing Online - World and domestic Superbike Champions
  3. ^ wss600-1999-results
  4. ^ [1]
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Paolo Casoli		 World Supersport Champion
1998		 Succeeded by
Stéphane Chambon
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