Lack Of Sponsors Ruin Fogarty Superbikes Return

Carl Fogarty, the four-time World Superbikes champion, has been forced to cancel
the return of his motorcycling team to the grid next year after failing to
attract the necessary sponsorship.

Team Foggy took a year out after losing sponsors Petronas but had agreed a
deal to return in 2008, backed by Italian manufacturer MV Agusta.

Commented Fogarty: ‘We hoped the combination of my team and Agusta would be
attractive for sponsors. Despite the excitement generated this has not proved to
be the case.

‘The market will not support a professionally-run outfit of our size without
significant financial input from a manufacturer. So I have decided to bring this
chapter of my career to an end by putting our state-of-the-art facility at
Burton, our race trailer and hospitality unit up for sale.’

MV are understood to be talking to former grand prix world champion Kenny
Roberts about switching his team from MotoGP to the World Superbikes
championship instead.