The announcement of the Superbike Advocates Racing team joining the 2026 BSB grid would have been fairly significant in itself, but bringing in British 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 2⛄025 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 the Australian-based Superbike Advocates ꦚsquad to BSB for 2026 began at last year’s Classic Bike Show.

“It came about through a bit of a chance meeting with [Superbike Advocates Racing owner] Lee Khouri’s right-hand man in the UK, he looks a♕fter his busin🌱ess 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 ra🌄cing, getti🗹ng back into being involved with a team’.

“He said ‘I work for t🅰his guy in Australia who runs a Superbike 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 really up for it and really wanted to do this, and here we go 💟– all sꦍystems go for 2026.”

Fogarty added that the ൩goals fo♛r 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 Ducati – a proven winning bike – and myself,” he sa🎃id.

“The image of the bike, the team – everything is going to look ri💦ght, we’re going to have a strong presence there, we really are.”

Results aren’🧸t the whole picture, though, and the former World Champion wants to find some enjoyment from the exp𓃲erience, 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 Championshipꦜ – 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.”