Michele Pirro wins his tenth Italian title between Superbike, Superstock 1000 and Supersport. It is his seventh with the Barni Spark Racing Team supported by Accossato.
The tenth title came in a totally unexpected and rocambolic way. At the finish line Michele Pirro did not yet know that he was the 2024 Italian Superbike Champion, the news came after a few seconds of waiting at the parc fermé when race management confirmed that Delbianco, second under the checkered flag, had to give up his position to Pirro for going beyond the track limits on the last lap. The exchange of positions between the two gave the Barni Spark Racing Team rider the mathematical certainty of having won the championship with two races to spare. The final lap was just the last act of a thrilling race, led and won by Bernardi, but whose protagonists were above all Delbianco and Russo, long second and third.
Michele acted as a non-paying “spectator” to their continuous duel, when he tried to thread Russo responded with aggressive overtaking so the #51 managed the race in view of the championship and in the end benefited from others’ skirmishes. Overtaking at the last corner Russo, who in turn ended up wide in the fight with Delbianco, he thus gained the decisive position. For Michele this is title number 10 between Superbike, Superstock 1000 and Supersport, his seventh with the Bergamo-based team in the premier class.
