Carl Fogarty MBE
Fogarty in April 2015 at Classics on the Quay
Nationality	British
Born	(1965-07-01)1 July 1965 (age 60) 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 FogartyMBE (born 1 July 1965), often known asFoggy, is an English former motorcycle racer and one of the most successfulWorld Superbike racers of all time. He also holds the fourth highest number of race wins at 59 behindJonathan Rea,Toprak Razgatlioglu andÁlvaro Bautista. He is the son of former motorcycle racer George Fogarty.^[1] He retired in 2000. In 2011, Fogarty was named aFIM Legend for his motorcycling achievements.^[2]

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 factoryDucati team. Fogarty helped to develop thePetronas FP1 racing motorcycle in the early 2000s.

Fogarty was appointedMember of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the1998 New Year Honours.^[3][4]

Fogarty won the14th series ofI'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2014 and was crowned 'King of the Jungle'.^[5]

In1991, Fogarty raced for Neil Tuxworth'sHonda 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 atDonington Park, and finished the championship ninth overall despite only completing a partial season.

The1993 season was the beginning of his era as a factoryDucati rider. He battled withScott 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.

In1994, 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.

Fogarty missed theHockenheim races with a broken wrist, but fought back to beat Russell andAaron Slight to the crown.

Winning six of the first eight races in1995 helped Fogarty seal that title with 5 of the 24 races to spare, and he clinched it with three races remaining in 1999.

In1996, Fogarty raced for Tuxworth again, now with Honda factory support. Despite winning four races that season on theRC45, 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 championTroy Corser.

In1997, Fogarty returned to Ducati, finishing second overall to the Honda ofJohn Kocinski.

The1998 season was Fogarty's closest title – after a disappointing weekend at theNürburgring 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 atPhillip 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 byTroy Bayliss.

Fogarty's first victory in any form of racing atBrands Hatch did not come until 1995. He had much greater success atAssen, winning all but one race there between 1995 and1999.

Fogarty's Isle of Man achievements started in the mid-1980s. He won the 1985 Lightweight Newcomers event at theManx 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 26Isle 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 byJim Moodie from a standing start riding aHonda RC45 in 1999, taking the record to 124.45 mph.^[6]

Early in his career, Fogarty won theFormula 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.

Fogarty made several starts inMoto GP, filling in forPierfrancesco Chili on an ROC bike for a while in 1990, with a best finish of sixth at theSwedish Grand Prix. He also contested the 500ccBritish Grand Prix several times. In1992, he ran sixth before crashing on oil. In1993 he qualified on the second row, and ran second early on afterAlex Barros,Mick Doohan andKevin Schwantz crashed on the first lap. He was set for third when he ran out of fuel, coasting over the line in fourth behind threeYamahas. He was entered again in1994, but withdrew pre-race – citing a hand injury but later admitting that he felt the ride was uncompetitive.

In 1992, Fogarty teamed withTerry Rymer and Michael Simul to win the24 Hours of Le Mans. Other wins includedBol d'Or. They went on to win theFIM Endurance World Championship forKawasaki. 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 1995Daytona 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.^[7]

Fogarty won theUlster 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.^[8]

In 1993, Fogarty won both superbike races at theNorth 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.^[9]

Fogarty rode a Harris Yamaha 500 GP bike in 1992 to victory in the Macau Grand Prix.^[10]

In 2002,Ducati released a special limited edition model (only 300 units were built) in his honour, theMonster 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 andJames Haydon in 2003, but their three-cylinderPetronas FP1 was never truly competitive. In 2004 they achieved two third places (one for Corser and one forChris 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 officialMV Agusta team^[11] – only to later pull the plug on his team's activities and put their assets up for sale.^[12]

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 newspaperMCN) in which he often berates past rivals such asTroy Corser andNeil Hodgson. This attitude towards other racers has made him a love-or-hate personality in the motorcycling world.

In 2014, Fogarty won thefourteenth series of ITV'I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. The final saw him challenged to eat a large cupful of livemealworms (which he managed in three mouthfuls), two friedtarantulas, three livecockroaches,ostrich anus and acamel's penis.^[13][14]

In July 2016, Fogarty was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from theUniversity of Central Lancashire.^[15]

Fogarty married Michaela in 1991.^[16] They live in Mellor Blackburn Lancashire and have two children, including a daughter Claudia.^[17][18]

Fogarty backed theConservative Party in the2019 United Kingdom general election.^[19]

Fogarty has published two books:Foggy: The Explosive Autobiography (2001) andThe World According To Foggy (2018).^[20][21]

Forgarty is patron of local charity North West Blood Bikes - Lancs & Lakes and will be opening their new headquarters in December 2017.^[22]

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

(key) (Races inbold indicate pole position) (Races initalics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Bike	Rider	TC
1992	Kawasaki ZXR-7	Terry Rymer Carl Fogarty	1st

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