Fogarty snaps up Australian duo

[Marknz]

Four-time World Superbike champion Carl Fogarty has assembled an all-Australian team for the 2005 season.
Foggy Petronas have signed Steve Martin and former MotoGP star Garry McCoy to replace Troy Corser and Chris Walker.

Fogarty said: "Garry is a very exciting rider, with a proven pedigree, who I think will adapt well to our bike.

"Steve is probably the most underrated rider on the world scene. He wants to be noticed and now it's up to him to make people sit up and take notice."

McCoy, formerly of Ducati Fila, said: "I am really looking forward to it. It is still only early days for the FP1 but it's clear it has potential.

"I'm really hoping to do better than last year as I now know a lot of the tracks that I didn't know in my first season, which made it really tough."

Martin, at DFXtreme Sterilgarda last season, added: "I am really excited by this opportunity and I am going to give it everything I have got.

"I'm sure that we can challenge consistently for podiums and better my seventh place in last year's standings.

"I've seen the FP1 out on track and it clearly handles really well and had good pace for only its second year of racing."

[Blakamin]

Wonder if VB will come on board as a sponsor???


I wis "foggy" would just fog off.... arsehole

[LB]

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Hmmm. The bike hasn't exactly set the world on fire, though it's tried (have you seen those flames coming out the exhausts??)

They're both bloody good riders, will be interesting to see how they go.

Like it's been said on another thread, this is going to be a great SBK season.

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