Fabrizio Pirovano
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Fabrizio Pirovano is a motorcycle racer from Biassono, Italy, born on February 1, 1960. When the World Superbike 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]]. Curiously he never took a WSBK pole position. He has also won the Italian Superbike title four times [2]
By the mid-90s WSBK had more international stars (such as Troy Corser and Carl Fogarty and Fabrizio was less competitive. In 1995 2nd at the season-opener at Hockenheim was his only podium, and he left the series after this year. He returned to racing in World Supersport in 1997. He was series 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 [3], and this proved to be his last full season. As of 2006 he is semi-retired, but won a one-off race in the Suzuki GSX-R Cup at Misano in June 2006 [4]
