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FOGY: The Explosive Autobiography of the Four-Time Superbike World Champion
by FOGARTY, CARL and BRAMWELL, NEIL
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308pp incl index. Uniformly yellowing. Clean and tightly bound with no markings, annotations or inscriptions.
Carl Fogarty - Foggy to his legion of fans around the globe is quite simply, a Superbike legend and arguably the best ever motorbike rider from Britain. He is also something of a sporting rarity. Not only is he a consistent British world champion, but superstar status has failed to affect his honest and down to earth approach to life.
He is the major box office attraction of the increasingly popular World Superbike championship., which he has won a record four times, amongst other world crowns. In 1999, an amazing 120,000 fans turned up to watch him race at Brands Hatch. Foggy is a typically frank account of the transformation from a shy and awkward teenager to the self-assured celebrity and Superbike legend. It details the dangers of his sport, personal tragedies, the hell-raising years and the sport's unique sex appeal. But Fogarty is essentially a family man and he has retained his roots in the Lancashire town of Blackburn, where he lives with wife Michaela and his two daughters.
The book provide a unique insight into the big money deals that have made him a multi-millionaire and the problems that go hand in hand with such wealth. Track rivals are not spared the forthright, Fogarty treatment in some startling revelations about the cut and thrust world of his profession. Most of all though, he displays an ability to laugh at himself, one of the enduring charms that makes Carl Fogarty's life story a roller coaster ride of humour and emotion.
Carl Fogarty - Foggy to his legion of fans around the globe is quite simply, a Superbike legend and arguably the best ever motorbike rider from Britain. He is also something of a sporting rarity. Not only is he a consistent British world champion, but superstar status has failed to affect his honest and down to earth approach to life.
He is the major box office attraction of the increasingly popular World Superbike championship., which he has won a record four times, amongst other world crowns. In 1999, an amazing 120,000 fans turned up to watch him race at Brands Hatch. Foggy is a typically frank account of the transformation from a shy and awkward teenager to the self-assured celebrity and Superbike legend. It details the dangers of his sport, personal tragedies, the hell-raising years and the sport's unique sex appeal. But Fogarty is essentially a family man and he has retained his roots in the Lancashire town of Blackburn, where he lives with wife Michaela and his two daughters.
The book provide a unique insight into the big money deals that have made him a multi-millionaire and the problems that go hand in hand with such wealth. Track rivals are not spared the forthright, Fogarty treatment in some startling revelations about the cut and thrust world of his profession. Most of all though, he displays an ability to laugh at himself, one of the enduring charms that makes Carl Fogarty's life story a roller coaster ride of humour and emotion.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13520
- Title
- FOGY
- Author
- FOGARTY, CARL and BRAMWELL, NEIL
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in plastic
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Collins Willow
- Place of Publication
- Suffolk
- Date Published
- 2000
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; Motor Cycles;
- Size
- 242x165x29mm
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