Fabrizio Pirovano (1 February 1960 – 12 June 2016) was an Italian professional motorcycle
road racer
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from
Biassono.
Motorcycle racing career
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 championship's all-time top 10 for starts, points and podiums. Curiously he never took a World Superbike pole position. He won the Italian Superbike title four times.
By the mid-1990s, the World Superbike championship had more international stars (such as
Troy Corser and
Carl Fogarty) and Pirovano was less competitive. In , a second-place finish at the season-opener at
Hockenheim was his only podium, and he left the championship at the end of the year. He moved to the Open Championship for 1996, winning several races and remained there as it became the
Supersport World Championship
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in . He was champion with five wins in , and finished in the top 10 in the four other seasons he contested. In his best results were a pair of 5th places, and this proved to be his last full season. He won a one-off race in the
Suzuki GSX-R
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Cup at the
Misano Circuit
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in June 2006. He died after losing a battle against an incurable tumour on 12 June 2016.
Career statistics
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
Races by year
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
Superbike World Championship
Races by year
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
Supersport World Championship
Races by year
(
key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
References
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1960 births
2016 deaths
Sportspeople from the Province of Monza e Brianza
Italian motorcycle racers
Superbike World Championship riders
Supersport World Championship riders
Deaths from cancer in Lombardy