Carl Fogarty

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Carl Fogarty MBE
Fogarty in April 2015 at Classics on the Quay
Nationality	British
Born	(1965-07-01) 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 1993 championship position 23rd (13 pts) 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) 2000 championship position 26th (36 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 220 59 109 21 48 3020

Carl George Fogarty MBE (born 1 July 1965), often known as Foggy, is an English former motorcycle racer and one of the most successful World Superbike racers of all time. He also holds the third highest number of race wins at 59 behind Jonathan Rea and Álvaro Bautista. He is the son of former motorcycle racer George Fogarty. He retired in 2000. In 2011, Fogarty was named a FIM Legend for his motorcycling achievements.

Fogarty was renowned for his high corner speed riding style, combined with an aggressive competitiveness, which brought him 59 victories and four World Superbike Championships (1994, 1995, 1998 and 1999). His greatest success came with the factory Ducati team. Fogarty helped to develop the Petronas FP1 racing motorcycle in the early 2000s.

He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1998 New Year Honours.

He won the 14th series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2014 and was crowned 'King of the Jungle'.

Superbike World Championship

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

His Isle of Man achievements started in the mid-1980s. He won the 1985 Lightweight Newcomers event at the Manx Grand Prix and went on to win three TT races. First was the 1989 production 750 race followed by the Formula 1 and Senior events in 1990. He made a total of 26 Isle of Man TT starts, breaking the lap record in 1992. His lap at 18 minutes, 18.8 seconds (123.61 mph) on a Yamaha 750 cc 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.

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.

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 FIM Endurance World Championship for Kawasaki. Thus, along with his four World Superbike Championships, he holds an aggregate of five world championship titles.

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.

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.

In 1993, Fogarty won both superbike races at the North West 200 on board a Moto Cinelli Ducati 888. In race one he beat the Dunlop brothers (Robert in second, Joey third) and in race two, he was again ahead of Robert (second) and Phillip McCallen in third. He also set a new lap record of 122.491 mph.

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

Career stats

Season	Series	Title	Pole	Race	Podium	Win	2nd	3rd	Full Laps	Pts
1988–2000	World Superbike	4	21	220	109	59	33	17	48	3020

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 – only to later pull the plug on his team's activities and put their assets up for sale.

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 won 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.

In July 2016, Fogarty was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Central Lancashire.

Personal life

Fogarty married Michaela in 1991. They live in Mellor Blackburn Lancashire and have two children, including a daughter Claudia.

Fogarty backed the Conservative Party in the 2019 United Kingdom general election.

Fogarty has published two books: Foggy: The Explosive Autobiography (2001) and The World According To Foggy (2018).

Charity work

Forgarty is patron of local charity North West Blood Bikes - Lancs & Lakes and will be opening their new headquarters in December 2017.

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	Pos	Pts
1986	250cc	Yamaha	ESP	NAT	GER	AUT	YUG	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR 11	SWE	SMR					NC	0
1990	500cc	Honda	JPN	USA	ESP	NAT	GER	AUT	YUG	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR Ret	SWE 6	CZE 10	HUN 8	AUS	18th	24
1992	500cc	Harris-Yamaha	JPN	AUS	MAL	ESP	ITA	EUR	GER	NED	HUN	FRA	GBR Ret	BRA	RSA			NC	0
1993	500cc	Cagiva	AUS	MAL	JPN	ESP	AUT	GER	NED	EUR	RSM	GBR 4	CZE	ITA	USA	FIM		23rd	13

Superbike 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		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 DNS	HUN	HUN	GER	GER	AUT	AUT	JPN	JPN	FRA	FRA	POR	POR	AUS	AUS	NZL	NZL									NC	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

External links

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