CARL FOGARTY
1995 WSB, Brands Hatch
After winning the World Superbike championship in 1994, Foggy-mania was just taking off. Carl had been destroying the opposition through the early part of the season, but at the race before Brands - Laguna Seca - he'd suffered his worst results so far, a fifth and a seventh. He wasn't full of confidence for Brands
"Even compared to other great races I've had, like my first World Superbike win at Donington Park in 1992, the one that rates as the best is that Brands Hatch race. It was a superb event, rather than two good race results. It was perfect. I took pole, the lap record and two race wins.
"To top it all it was a beautiful day and there were 50,000 fans there. It wasn't looking good for me on the run-up to Brands. The meeting before at Laguna Seca I'd had my first bad results of the year and was worried going to Brands as it's a similar sort of circuit, with lots of up and downhill sections. But from the first time I arrived the bike just worked so well, probably the best it worked all year. You normally turn up at a track and the gearing is out here or there but at Brands the bike was spot-on. It made the races easy, I just disappeared.
"Another thing that made the event so special was that crowd. To get that many watching a bike race made people think back to the era of Sheene and Roberts or the Transatlantic races. It also marked the start of WSB putting GPs in the shade. All-in-all, that Brands Hatch meeting was perfect."
