CARL Fogarty's race team will make their first public appearance at the Brands Hatch round of the World Superbike Championship but will not race until next season.

The Foggy Petronas Racing team have officially broken their silence over not racing this season after failing to meet the sport's rules over producing enough road-going versions of their brand new superbike.

Team rider James Haydon confirmed last weekend the team would not race this season and now Fogarty has admitted his team would not race until the 2003 season.

Fans of the former world champion will still get the chance to see Fogarty's new bikes, ridden by Haydon and Troy Corser, during special demonstrations at the Kent circuit during the world round on July 26-28.

The team will then concentrate on further development work on of the Foggy FP1 race bike ahead of an intensive winter testing programme.

"The whole idea of the manufacturing project is to build a road bike based on racing excellence," said Fogarty.

"So it does not really make sense to rush our testing programme, which is also so crucial to the thorough development of the Foggy FP1 road bike, just so that we could have competed in the few remaining races this year.

"Everyone involved in this project wanted to race at the earliest possible opportunity.

"But we have decided that it was not worth sacrificing the overall aims of the project in order to satisfy the governing body's deadline.

"I am most disappointed for our two riders, James Haydon and Troy Corser.

"But they both have multi-year deals and will have a more competitive bike to reward their patience when we do start racing after an extensive testing programme."

Road versions of the Foggy FP1 race bike are being built by Petronas as part of their long-term programme to manufacture the first Malaysian race-bred superbike.

But as 75 road-going versions of the race bike were not built by the deadline set by the FIM, the sports' governing body, the FP1 cannot be raced in the World Superbike Championship this year.