The announcement of the Superbike Advocates Racing team joining the 2026 BSB grid would have been fairly significant in itself, but bringing in Bri♏tish racing legend Carl Fogarty to head up the squad as Team Principal has meant that anticipation for the 2026 season has taken off even before the 2025🍎 season has begun.

Fogarty, who last managed a team in 2006 as part of his 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike Foggy Petronas FP1 project, said that the plan to bring t🐟he Australian-based 𒉰Superbike Advocates squad to BSB for 2026 began at last year’s Classic Bike Show.

“It came about through a bit of a chance meeting 𓆉with [Superbike Advocates Racing owner] Lee Khouri’s right-hand man in the UK, he looks after his business affairs,” Fogarty told BritishSuperbike.com.

“He came to the Classic Bike Show last year; he brought some Foggy merchandise, funnily enough, and my guy who runs the merchandise stall, Tony, was saying that ‘Carl’s maybe looking to get back into racing, getti🎀ng back into being involved wit🀅h a team’.

“He said ‘I work for this guy in Australia who runs a ไSuperbike team and he’s a big fan of Carl and he wants to run a team in the UK as well’.

“So, that’s where the initial conversation started. We spoke over the winter and he was reall🧜y up for it and really wanted to do this, and here we go – all systems go for 2026.”

Fogarty 🔥added that the goals for the team are clear.

“Our intentions are to be very fast from the off, to be challenging for🦩 the wins straight away with the team that we’ve got, with the experience of the Jackson Racing team; with the Dꦚucati – a proven winning bike – and myself,” he said.

“The image of the bike, the team – everything is going to look right, we’re going to have a strong pr♌esen♏ce there, we really are.”

🐻Results aren’🍌t the whole picture, though, and the former World Champion wants to find some enjoyment from the experience, too.

“We want to have fun as well, I want to enjoy this probably more♐ than when I was racing –🐽 I didn’t really enjoy it unless I was winning, and even then I was thinking about the next race straight away,” he said.

“So, I want to 🌼put a bit of a smile on my face and enjoy the experience of racing the British Superbike Championship – which I’ve always been a fan of, I’ve alway followed it passionately. But we want to win as well, and that’s important.”