Two Ex-Foggy Honda RC30 Race Bikes Head to Auction
A pair of Honda VFR750Rs formerly owned and raced by Carl Fogarty are heading to the Stafford Spring Sale
Hot on the heels of the news that Carl Fogarty is being commemorated at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed, two of the fan-favourite racer’s Honda VFR750R (RC30) race bikes are heading to auction.
The two bikes offer collectors the chance to snap up genuine pieces of road racing history, and quite possibly an entry into this year’s Festival of Speed, which we now know will be celebrating his World Superbike success.
Foggy, as he was affectionately known, won World Superbike championships in 1994, 1995, 1998, and 1999, but he was already racing in the Isle of Man and on the roads in 1980s. In 1985 he won the Lightweight Newcomers event at the Manx Grand Prix and eventually went on to win three TT races. The first of those race wins was the 1989 production 750 race (the bike you can see with the #8 on the seat unit), with the second being the F1 TT race (bike #4). Fogarty also won the Senior in 1990 riding a Silkolene Honda ahead of Nick Jefferies and Robert Dunlop.
The first bike (#8 - top) is registered F908 RLD, while the second bike, (#4 - above) is designated E166 JBV. Both are accompanied by a signed letter from George Fogarty dated 22nd October 1989, which reads: "This is to certify the 1989 RC30 is the motorcycle ridden by Carl in the 1989 IOM 750cc Production TT race, which he won." The bikes were both purchased directly from Fogarty in 1989 and have been kept in the same private collections ever since. The sale of F908 RLD also includes an unused 1991 tax disc and photos from an Isle of Man TT display to go with it.
The estimate for E166 JBV is between £30,000 and £40,000, while F908 RLD is estimated to sell for between £25,000 and £30,000.
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