Carl Fogarty

Carl "Foggy" Fogarty
Fogarty in April 2015 at Classics on the Quay
Nationality	British
Born	1 July 1965 Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Website	www.carlfogarty.com
Motorcycle racing career statistics MotoGP World Championship Active years 1990 – 1993 Manufacturers Cagiva, Honda Championships 0 Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 8 0 0 0 0 37 Superbike World Championship Active years 1988 – 2000 Manufacturers Ducati, Honda Championships 4. 1994,1995,1998,1999 Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 219 60 109 21 48

Carl George Fogarty, MBE (born 1 July 1965), often known as Foggy, and the son of former motorcycle racer George Fogarty,^[1] is the most successful World Superbike racer of all time in terms of the number of championships and number of race wins.

Retired from racing since 2000, he is renowned for his high corner speed riding style, combined with an aggressive competitiveness, which netted him 59 victories and four World Superbike Championships (1994, 1995, 1998 and 1999). His greatest success came with the factory Ducati team.

He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1998 New Year Honours, and helped to develop the Petronas FP1 racing motorcycle campaigned in the early 2000s.

He won the fourteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2014.

World Superbikes

In 1991 he raced for Neil Tuxworth's Honda UK team in World Superbikes, finishing seventh overall. The team pulled out in 1992, and Fogarty nearly found himself without a ride after a promised deal failed to materialise. He did ultimately take his first WSBK win at Donington Park, and finished the championship ninth overall despite only completing a partial season.

The 1993 season was the beginning of his era as a factory Ducati rider. He battled with Scott Russell for the title, winning 11 races to the American's five, but losing out on consistency (Russell came 2nd twelve times compared to Fogarty's two) to finish behind him.

In 1994 two factors came together to build on the successes of the previous season. Fogarty was fit and hungry for the title, having been so close the previous season; but he would also be using the new Ducati 916.

He missed the Hockenheim races with a broken wrist, but fought back to beat Russell and Aaron Slight to the crown.

Winning six of the first eight races in 1995 helped him seal that title with 5 of the 24 races to spare, and he clinched it with three races remaining in 1999.

In 1996 he raced for Tuxworth again, now with Honda factory support. Despite winning four races that season on the RC45, three more than team-mate Slight, and one more than Slight had managed over three seasons on the bike, Fogarty again struggled with consistency and finished fourth overall, 16 points behind second placed Slight and 38 points behind champion Troy Corser.

In 1997 he returned to Ducati, finishing second overall to the Honda of John Kocinski.

The 1998 season was his closest title – after a disappointing weekend at the Nürburgring he lay just sixth in the standings, but fought back to overhaul Corser and Slight in the final round. This was especially notable as his team (Ducati Performance), managed by Davide Tardozzi, was in its first year of WSBK competition.

Fogarty was forced to retire from racing in 2000 after a racing incident at Phillip Island when he hit privateer Ducati rider Robert Ulm and crashed. He suffered multiple injuries, including a serious shoulder injury which failed to heal well-enough to allow him to race again. He was replaced in the factory Ducati team by Troy Bayliss.

His first victory in any form of racing at Brands Hatch did not come until 1995. He had much greater success at Assen, winning all but one race there between 1995 and 1999.

Other races

'Foggy' on his Yamaha at Creg-ny-Baa on the Isle of Man.

Early in his career he won the Formula One World Championship for bikes, which was gradually fading after the 1988 commencement of the World Superbike Championship. Fogarty won it three times, from 1988 to 1990. In 1990 it dropped below the six races required for the FIM to class it as a championship, rather than merely a cup; again, he won it.

He made several starts in Moto GP, filling in for Pierfrancesco Chili on an ROC bike for a while in 1990, with a best finish of sixth at the Swedish Grand Prix. He also contested the 500cc British Grand Prix several times. In 1992 he ran sixth before crashing on oil. In 1993 he qualified on the second row, and ran second early on after Alex Barros, Mick Doohan and Kevin Schwantz crashed on the first lap. He was set for third when he ran out of fuel, coasting over the line in fourth behind three Yamahas. He was entered again in 1994, but withdrew pre-race – citing a hand injury but later admitting that he felt the ride was uncompetitive.

Fogarty broke the lap record at the Isle of Man TT in 1992. His lap at 18 minutes, 18.8 seconds (123.61 mph) on a Yamaha 750cc was not broken until seven years later by Jim Moodie from a standing start riding a Honda RC45 in 1999, taking the record to 124.45 mph. His TT exploits began in the mid-eighties. He was the winner of the 1985 Lightweight Newcomers Manx Grand Prix and went on to win three TT races. The first was the 1989 production 750 race and he collected the 1990 Formula 1 and senior trophies. He made a total of 26 Isle of Man TT starts.^[2]

In 1992 he teamed with Terry Rymer and Michael Simul to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Other wins included Bol d'Or. They went on to win the World Endurance Championship for Kawasaki.

Riding for Ducati, Fogarty finished second at the 1995 Daytona 200 in the United States. Scott Russell crashed during the first lap of the race but was able to remount and pass Fogarty for the win. Fogarty said that the pace car regrouping following the yellow flag allowed Russell to close the gap significantly.^[3]

Fogarty won the Ulster Grand Prix F1 race in 1988 and then a year later he won the ‘King of the Roads’ senior race setting a new lap record in the process, a speed of 121.629 mph.^[4]

In 1993, Foggy produced an imperious display of road racing to win both superbike races at the North West 200 on board a Moto Cinelli Ducati 888. In race one he beat the Dunlops (Robert in second, Joey third) and in race two, he was again ahead of Robert (second) and Phillip McCallen in third. In a truly dominant display, he also set a new lap record of 122.491 mph.^[5]

Fogarty rode a Harris Yamaha 500 GP bike in 1992 to victory in the Macau Grand Prix.^[6]

Career stats

year		Poles	Races	Podiums	Wins	2nd	3rd	Titles
Career	Superbike	21	219	109	59	33	17	4

Post-racing

In 2002, Ducati released a special limited edition model (only 300 units were built) in his honour, the Monster S4 Fogarty.

In the same year, Fogarty founded the Foggy Petronas team in the World Superbike Championship (WSB). They entered with Carl's former team-mate Corser and James Haydon in 2003, but their three-cylinder Petronas FP1 was never truly competitive. In 2004 they achieved two third places (one for Corser and one for Chris Walker), but in this season there was little manufacturer support in WSB. Once several manufacturers returned for 2005, they were not competitive. Petronas ended the project at the end of 2006, leaving Foggy's racing future unclear. Having tried and failed to find sponsorship for a team running customer Ducatis in 2007, in May Fogarty confirmed the team's return in 2008 as the official MV Agusta team^[7] – only to later pull the plug on his team's activities and put their assets up for sale.^[8]

Carl Fogarty was never a person to stray away from controversy in the WSB paddock, and even in retirement, he frequently voices his opinion (most often in the British motorcycle newspaper MCN) in which he often berates past rivals such as Troy Corser and Neil Hodgson. This attitude towards other racers has made him a love-or-hate personality in the motorcycling world.

In 2014 Fogarty was the winner of the fourteenth series of ITV' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. The final saw him challenged to eat a large cupful of live mealworms (which he managed in three mouthfuls), two fried tarantulas, three live cockroaches, ostrich anus and a camel's penis.^[9][10]

Personal life

Foggy married Michaela in 1991.^[11] They owned a house in Lytham St Annes and have two children.^[12][13]

Superbike World Championship results

(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
		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	Honda	GBR Ret	GBR	HUN	HUN	GER	GER	AUT	AUT	JPN	JPN	FRA	FRA	POR	POR	AUS	AUS	NZL	NZL									–	0
1989	Honda	GBR 7	GBR 13	HUN	HUN	CAN	CAN	USA	USA	AUT	AUT	FRA	FRA	JPN	JPN	GER	GER	ITA	ITA	AUS	AUS	NZL	NZL					44th	12
1990	Honda	ESP 14	ESP Ret	GBR 6	GBR 6	HUN	HUN	GER	GER	CAN	CAN	USA	USA	AUT	AUT	JPN	JPN	FRA Ret	FRA 8	ITA	ITA	MAS	MAS	AUS	AUS	NZL	NZL	19th	30
1991	Honda	GBR Ret	GBR 9	ESP 9	ESP 8	CAN	CAN	USA 11	USA 11	AUT	AUT	SMR 7	SMR 8	SWE 4	SWE 4	JPN 11	JPN 8	MAS 8	MAS 7	GER 9	GER 10	FRA 6	FRA 7	ITA 7	ITA Ret	AUS	AUS	7th	146
1992	Ducati	ESP 12	ESP 10	GBR Ret	GBR 1	GER 20	GER 11	BEL Ret	BEL 8	ESP 5	ESP Ret	AUT 6	AUT 7	ITA 7	ITA 4	MAS	MAS	JPN	JPN	NED 4	NED 2	ITA Ret	ITA Ret	AUS 7	AUS Ret	NZL	NZL	9th	134
1993	Ducati	GBR Ret	GBR	GER 3	GER 7	ESP 1	ESP 1	SMR 5	SMR 3	AUT 4	AUT 4	CZE 1	CZE 2	SWE 1	SWE 1	MAS 1	MAS 1	JPN 1	JPN 24	NED 1	NED 1	ITA 4	ITA 4	GBR 2	GBR Ret	POR Ret	POR 1	2nd	349,5
1994	Ducati	GBR 1	GBR 2	GER	GER	SMR Ret	SMR 5	ESP 1	ESP 1	AUT 1	AUT 1	INA Ret	INA 1	JPN 4	JPN 2	NED 1	NED 1	ITA 2	ITA 1	GBR 14	GBR 5	AUS 1	AUS 2					1st	305
1995	Ducati	GER 1	GER 1	SMR 2	SMR 2	GBR 1	GBR 1	ITA 1	ITA 2	ESP 2	ESP 1	AUT 1	AUT 2	USA 5	USA 7	GBR 1	GBR 1	JPN Ret	JPN 1	NED 1	NED 1	INA 1	INA Ret	AUS 4	AUS 2			1st	478
1996	Honda	SMR 7	SMR 6	GBR 8	GBR 7	GER 5	GER 1	ITA 1	ITA 3	CZE 2	CZE 3	USA 8	USA 4	GBR 5	GBR Ret	INA 2	INA 3	JPN 8	JPN 4	NED 1	NED 1	ESP 5	ESP 7	AUS 4	AUS 6			4th	331
1997	Ducati	AUS 2	AUS 4	SMR 3	SMR 3	GBR 2	GBR 1	GER 4	GER 1	ITA 3	ITA 4	USA 2	USA 2	GBR Ret	GBR 1	AUT 1	AUT Ret	NED 2	NED 1	ESP Ret	ESP Ret	JPN 13	JPN Ret	INA 3	INA 1			2nd	358
1998	Ducati	AUS 1	AUS 3	GBR 7	GBR 3	ITA 6	ITA 2	ESP 9	ESP 1	GER 13	GER 13	SMR 4	SMR 3	RSA 2	RSA 2	USA 5	USA Ret	GBR 4	GBR 2	AUT 3	AUT 2	NED 2	NED 1	JPN 3	JPN 4			1st	351,5
1999	Ducati	RSA 1	RSA 1	AUS 2	AUS 2	GBR 1	GBR 2	ESP 3	ESP 3	ITA 1	ITA 1	GER 1	GER 15	SMR 1	SMR 1	USA 5	USA 4	GBR 19	GBR 4	AUT 2	AUT 4	NED 1	NED 1	GER 1	GER 2	JPN 2	JPN 5	1st	489
2000	Ducati	RSA 3	RSA Ret	AUS 2	AUS Ret	JPN	JPN	GBR	GBR	ITA	ITA	GER	GER	SMR	SMR	ESP	ESP	USA	USA	GBR	GBR	NED	NED	GER	GER	GBR	GBR	26th	36

References

1. Bonhams auctions, sale of ex-George Fogarty RG500 "Bought new from Suzuki by George Fogarty (father of Carl), this RG500 MkII was raced by him during 1977 and 1978" Retrieved 24 December 2014
2. http://www.iomtt.com/TT-Database/competitors.aspx?ride_id=3844
3. http://home.ama-cycle.org/forms/museum/hof/hofbiopage.asp?id=370
4. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/motor-sport/its-sure-to-be-fogarty-at-ulster-grand-prix-28490869.html
5. http://blog.redtorpedo.com/2012/02/foggy-returns-to-nw200.html
6. http://2wheeltuesday.com/2011/11/mother-of-all-road-races-%E2%80%93-macau-grand-prix/
7. "Fogarty team confirms 2008 return". BBC News. 2 May 2007. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
8. James, Spiro (1 October 2007). "Fogarty closes shop after lack of sponsor interest". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 8 March 2008.
9. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30374097
10. "I'm a Celebrity 2014: Carl 'Foggy' Fogarty is crowned King of the Jungle, Jake Quickenden comes second". Daily Mirror. 7 December 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
11. England and Wales marriages Retrieved 21 December 2014
12. England and Wales census Retrieved 21 December 2014
13. Joyrider crashed stolen car into former world superbike champion Carl Fogarty's home Mirror, 16 July 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2014

External links

• Team Fogarty Racing
• The Carl Fogarty Photo Album
• Carl Fogarty interview – BBC Sport