Fabrizio Pirovano

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 , Pirovano was one of its first entrants, finishing as championship runner-up in and , and in the top five four other times. He won ten races and took 37 further podium finishes. He is in the championship's all-time top-ten 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 in 1997. He was champion with five wins in 1998, and finished in the top ten in the four other seasons he contested. In his best results were a pair of fifth places, 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.

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 Pts 1987 250cc Yamaha JPN SPA GER NATRet 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 Pts 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 1988 Yamaha GBR8 GBR4 HUN5 HUN6 GER11 GER8 AUT2 AUT7 JPNRet JPN10 FRA1 FRAC POR6 POR6 AUS6 AUS7 NZL2 NZL13 2nd 93.5 1989 Yamaha GBR1 GBR18 HUN3 HUN2 CAN6 CAN5 USA2 USA4 AUT5 AUT2 FRARet FRARet JPN7 JPNRet GER4 GER6 ITA3 ITA4 AUS3 AUSRet NZL NZL 4th 208 1990 Yamaha SPA6 SPA8 GBR5 GBR5 HUN3 HUN8 GER8 GER5 CAN3 CAN5 USA8 USA6 AUT1 AUT3 JPN4 JPN4 FRARet FRA2 ITA1 ITA1 MAL1 MAL1 AUS2 AUS5 NZLRet NZL4 2nd 337 1991 Yamaha GBR3 GBR8 SPA5 SPA5 CAN CAN USA5 USA6 AUTRet AUT5 SMR5 SMR4 SWE3 SWERet JPN7 JPN7 MAL2 MAL3 GERRet GER7 FRA31 FRA6 ITARet ITA6 AUS AUS 5th 195 1992 Yamaha SPA3 SPA4 GBR2 GBR5 GERRet GER6 BELRet BEL3 SPARet SPA3 AUT4 AUT6 ITA5 ITARet MAL2 MAL6 JPN3 JPN3 NED9 NED8 ITA1 ITA1 AUS12 AUS6 NZL5 NZL5 5th 278 1993 Yamaha IRL17 IRL3 GER2 GER5 SPA4 SPA7 SMR3 SMR11 AUTRet AUT18 CZE4 CZE4 SWE3 SWE4 MAL3 MAL3 JPN7 JPN5 NEDRet NED4 ITA3 ITA3 GBR4 GBR6 POR1 POR3 4th 290 1994 Ducati GBR3 GBRRet GERRet GER2 ITARet ITA6 SPARet SPA11 AUT8 AUTRet INA16 INARet JPN2 JPNRet NEDRet NED11 SMR5 SMR5 EURRet EUR12 AUS22 AUS8 9th 111 1995 Ducati GER2 GER13 SMR5 SMR6 GBR11 GBR5 ITA8 ITA8 SPA6 SPA4 AUT8 AUT5 USARet USA8 EUR7 EUR7 JPN13 JPNDNS NED10 NEDRet INA5 INA6 AUSRet AUS12 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 Pts 1997 Ducati SMRRet GBRRet GER11 ITA1 EUR6 AUT2 NEDRet GERRet SPA5 JPN3 INARet 8th 87 1998 Suzuki GBR6 ITA1 SPA1 GERRet SMR1 RSA3 USARet EUR1 AUT1 NED2 1st 171 1999 Suzuki RSARet GBRRet SPA5 ITA5 GER2 SMR4 USA5 EUR8 AUTRet NED GER6 7th 84 2000 Suzuki AUS9 JPN7 GBR ITARet GER8 SMR5 SPA4 EUR11 NEDRet GERRet GBR8 9th 61 2001 Suzuki SPA9 AUSRet JPN7 ITA8 GBR9 GERRet SMRRet EUR5 GER7 NED5 ITA11 10th 67