Fabrizio Pirovano | |
Nationality: | Italian |
Sbk Active Years: | – |
Sbk Manufacturers: | Yamaha, Ducati |
Sbk Race Starts: | 181 |
Sbk Race Wins: | 10 |
Sbk Podiums: | 47 |
Sbk Poles: | 0 |
Sbk Fastest Laps: | 13 |
Sbk Total Points: | 1678.5 |
Sbk Last Season: | 1995 |
Sbk Last Position: | 7th |
Ss Active Years: | 1997–2001 |
Ss Championships: | 1998 |
Ss Race Starts: | 52 |
Ss Race Wins: | 6 |
Ss Podiums: | 11 |
Ss Poles: | 1 |
Ss Fastest Laps: | 3 |
Ss Total Points: | 470 |
Fabrizio Pirovano (1 February 1960 – 12 June 2016) was an Italian professional 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 championship's all-time top 10 for starts, points and podiums.[1] [2] Curiously he never took a World Superbike pole position. He won the Italian Superbike title four times.[3]
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[4] and remained there as it became the Supersport World Championship 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,[5] and this proved to be his last full season. He won a one-off race in the Suzuki GSX-R Cup at the Misano Circuit in June 2006. He died after losing a battle against an incurable tumour on 12 June 2016.[6]
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Pts | ||
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1997 | SMR Ret | GBR Ret | GER 11 | ITA 1 | EUR 6 | AUT 2 | NED Ret | GER Ret | SPA 5 | JPN 3 | INA Ret | 8th | 87 | ||
1998 | Suzuki | GBR 6 | ITA 1 | SPA 1 | GER Ret | SMR 1 | RSA 3 | USA Ret | EUR 1 | AUT 1 | NED 2 | 1st | 171 | ||
1999 | Suzuki | RSA Ret | GBR Ret | SPA 5 | ITA 5 | GER 2 | SMR 4 | USA 5 | EUR 8 | AUT Ret | NED | GER 6 | 7th | 84 | |
2000 | AUS 9 | JPN 7 | GBR | ITA Ret | GER 8 | SMR 5 | SPA 4 | EUR 11 | NED Ret | GER Ret | GBR 8 | 9th | 61 | ||
2001 | SPA 9 | AUS Ret | JPN 7 | ITA 8 | GBR 9 | GER Ret | SMR Ret | EUR 5 | GER 7 | NED 5 | ITA 11 | 10th | 67 |