Fabrizio Pirovano

Fabrizio Pirovano
Fabrizio Pirovano
Nationality	Italian
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Superbike World Championship
Active years	1988–1995
Manufacturers	Yamaha, Ducati
1995 championship position	7th
Supersport World Championship
Active years	1997–2001
Championships	1998

Fabrizio Pirovano (1 February 1960 – 12 June 2016) was an Italian professional motorcycle road racer from Biassono.

Motorcycle racing career

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]^[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 1995, 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 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,^[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]

Career statistics

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	Pos.	Pts
1987	250cc	Yamaha	JPN	SPA	GER	NAT Ret	AUT	YUG	NED	FRA	GBR	SWE	CZE	RSM	POR	BRA	ARG	NC	0

Superbike World Championship

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Make	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		11		12		13		Pos.	Pts
Year	Make	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	R1	R2	Pos.	Pts
1988	Yamaha	GBR 8	GBR 4	HUN 5	HUN 6	GER 11	GER 8	AUT 2	AUT 7	JPN Ret	JPN 10	FRA 1	FRA C	POR 6	POR 6	AUS 6	AUS 7	NZL 2	NZL 13									2nd	93.5
1989	Yamaha	GBR 1	GBR 18	HUN 3	HUN 2	CAN 6	CAN 5	USA 2	USA 4	AUT 5	AUT 2	FRA Ret	FRA Ret	JPN 7	JPN Ret	GER 4	GER 6	ITA 3	ITA 4	AUS 3	AUS Ret	NZL	NZL					4th	208
1990	Yamaha	SPA 6	SPA 8	GBR 5	GBR 5	HUN 3	HUN 8	GER 8	GER 5	CAN 3	CAN 5	USA 8	USA 6	AUT 1	AUT 3	JPN 4	JPN 4	FRA Ret	FRA 2	ITA 1	ITA 1	MAL 1	MAL 1	AUS 2	AUS 5	NZL Ret	NZL 4	2nd	337
1991	Yamaha	GBR 3	GBR 8	SPA 5	SPA 5	CAN	CAN	USA 5	USA 6	AUT Ret	AUT 5	SMR 5	SMR 4	SWE 3	SWE Ret	JPN 7	JPN 7	MAL 2	MAL 3	GER Ret	GER 7	FRA 31	FRA 6	ITA Ret	ITA 6	AUS	AUS	5th	195
1992	Yamaha	SPA 3	SPA 4	GBR 2	GBR 5	GER Ret	GER 6	BEL Ret	BEL 3	SPA Ret	SPA 3	AUT 4	AUT 6	ITA 5	ITA Ret	MAL 2	MAL 6	JPN 3	JPN 3	NED 9	NED 8	ITA 1	ITA 1	AUS 12	AUS 6	NZL 5	NZL 5	5th	278
1993	Yamaha	IRL 17	IRL 3	GER 2	GER 5	SPA 4	SPA 7	SMR 3	SMR 11	AUT Ret	AUT 18	CZE 4	CZE 4	SWE 3	SWE 4	MAL 3	MAL 3	JPN 7	JPN 5	NED Ret	NED 4	ITA 3	ITA 3	GBR 4	GBR 6	POR 1	POR 3	4th	290
1994	Ducati	GBR 3	GBR Ret	GER Ret	GER 2	ITA Ret	ITA 6	SPA Ret	SPA 11	AUT 8	AUT Ret	INA 16	INA Ret	JPN 2	JPN Ret	NED Ret	NED 11	SMR 5	SMR 5	EUR Ret	EUR 12	AUS 22	AUS 8					9th	111
1995	Ducati	GER 2	GER 13	SMR 5	SMR 6	GBR 11	GBR 5	ITA 8	ITA 8	SPA 6	SPA 4	AUT 8	AUT 5	USA Ret	USA 8	EUR 7	EUR 7	JPN 13	JPN DNS	NED 10	NED Ret	INA 5	INA 6	AUS Ret	AUS 12			7th	178

Supersport World Championship

Races by year

(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	Pos.	Pts
1997	Ducati	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	Suzuki	AUS 9	JPN 7	GBR	ITA Ret	GER 8	SMR 5	SPA 4	EUR 11	NED Ret	GER Ret	GBR 8	9th	61
2001	Suzuki	SPA 9	AUS Ret	JPN 7	ITA 8	GBR 9	GER Ret	SMR Ret	EUR 5	GER 7	NED 5	ITA 11	10th	67

References

^ "Sbk.Com | Rider". Worldsbk.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-29. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
^ "World Superbike 2006 - Round Two - Phillip Island". Mcnews.com.au. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
^ "Motorcycle Racing Online - World and domestic Superbike Champions". Sportnetwork.net. 2007-04-11. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
^ "1990-2005 Supersport Winners / World Championship Superbike Series". Europark.com. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
^ "2001 World Supersport 600 - Race Results". Website.loineone.net. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
^ "Cancer claims Fabrizio Pirovano at 56". 14 June 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016.

Sporting positions
Preceded by Paolo Casoli	World Supersport Champion 1998	Succeeded by Stéphane Chambon

[1] "Sbk.Com | Rider". Worldsbk.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-29. Retrieved 2013-09-01.

[2] "World Superbike 2006 - Round Two - Phillip Island". Mcnews.com.au. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05. Retrieved 2013-09-01.

[3] "Motorcycle Racing Online - World and domestic Superbike Champions". Sportnetwork.net. 2007-04-11. Retrieved 2013-09-01.

[4] "1990-2005 Supersport Winners / World Championship Superbike Series". Europark.com. Retrieved 2013-09-01.

[5] "2001 World Supersport 600 - Race Results". Website.loineone.net. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2015.

[6] "Cancer claims Fabrizio Pirovano at 56". 14 June 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016.

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