Pierrot Vervroegen (born in
Belgium
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) was a
Belgian Grand Prix
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motorcycle
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road racer. He was a regular front runner in the Belgian motorcycle Championships and won the national 250cc title in 1959 riding a
MOTOBI Catria Sport.
In 1961 he won the first round of the FIM's 50cc
Coupe d'Europe riding an
Itom
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. He entered four world championship Grand Prix's in 1955, 1960, 1961 and 1962,
and gained a single World Championship point in the
1962 250cc World Championship.
References
125cc World Championship riders
250cc World Championship riders
Belgian motorcycle racers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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