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fabrizio pirovano
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fabrizio pirovano

fabrizio pirovano -lrb- born february 1 , 1960 -rrb- is an italian former 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 .
curiously he never took a world superbike pole position .
he has also won the italian superbike title four times by the mid-1990s , the world superbike championship had more international stars -lrb- such as troy corser and carl fogarty -rrb- 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 .
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 , and this proved to be his last full season .
as of 2006 he was semi-retired , but won a one-off race in the suzuki gsx-r cup at misano in june 2006 .
