Virginio Ferrari

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This article is about the motorcycle racer Virginio Ferrari. For the artist, see Virginio Ferrari (artist). For other uses, see Virginio Ferrari (disambiguation).

**Virginio Ferrari**
Motorcycle Grand Prix Career
Nationality	Italian
Active years	1976 - 1989
Team(s)	Suzuki, Bimota
Grands Prix	54
Championships	1 (1987 TT F1)
Wins	2
Podium finishes	10
Pole positions	1
Fastest laps	3
First Grand Prix	1976 500cc Nations Grand Prix
First win	1978 500cc West German Grand Prix
Last win	1979 500cc Dutch TT
Last Grand Prix	1989 250cc Czechoslovakian Grand Prix

Virginio Ferrari (born October 19, 1952) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He finished second to Kenny Roberts in the 1979 500cc world championship.

In 1986 Ferrari rode a 250 cc Honda NSR in a team run by Takazumi Katayama in the World Championship without much success, with just four top 10 results, his best, a 6th place in Silverstone. He finished 14th in the Championship. Ferrari won the 1987 TT F1 title aboard a Bimota YB4 EI.^[1]^[2]. His last Grand Prix season was in 1989, again in the 250 class, with the Italian made Gazzaniga, failing to score any points and finishing 28th in the Salzburgring and 27th in his last Grand Prix in Brno.

After his Grand Prix career, Ferrari switched to the Superbike World Championship in 1988, riding for the Ducati factory racing team. He took over as the team manager until 1998, when Davide Tardozzi took the job. Currently, Ferrari manages the Kawasaki PSG-1 team in the World Superbike Championship.