Karl Muggeridge

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Karl Muggeridge
Karl Muggeridge Brands Hatch 2007
Nationality	Australian
Date of birth	April 20, 1974 (1974-04-20) (age 34)
Place of birth	Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia


Website	muggas.com
SBK Record
Current team	D.F. Racing
Bike number	31
World Championships	0
Race starts	72
Race Wins
Podium finishes
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps

2008 Championship position	14th (20pts)

Karl Muggeridge born April 20, 1974 (1974-04-20) (age 34) in Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia is a professional motorcycle racer. He is married to Isobel, and has one son, Ryan Luca. He won the Supersport World Championship in 2004, and has raced in Superbike World Championship ever since

After several years of Motocross, Muggas began circuit racing in 1994, finishing 4th in his homeland's 250cc series a year later on a Suzuki. Over the next 3 years he did an assortment of races around the world, primarily on 600cc Supersport bikes. He was a regular in his home series in 1996, and in the British championship for the next 2 years, coming 4th overall in 1999, before moving on to the Supersport World Championship. He was 5th overall in 2000, 7th in 2001, 14th in 2002 and 4th in 2003, before taking the 2004 crown as the lead rider for Ten Kate Honda, with 7 wins and 8 poles.

Ten Kate expanded its Superbike World Championship team to 2 Honda Fireblade bikes for 2005, and Karl was moved up to join Chris Vermeulen, who won the WSS title for Ten Kate in 2003 and challenged for the WSBK crown as a series rookie in 2004. 2005 proved to be a tough year for Karl He finished the season 11th overall with 124 points.

In 2006 a back injury caused him to miss the Valencia round ^[1] and again failed to score a podium finish, despite strong qualifying runs including 3rd at Brands Hatch. He finished the season 12th with 123 points.

He lost his ride for 2007, and was offered a Supersport World Championship ride by the team. He instead remained in WSBK and on a Honda by joining countryman Josh Brookes at Alto Evolution. He missed his home race at Phillip Island after a crash in practice ^[2]. At Monza he started 6th ^[3] but crashed in the one race staged before heavy rain caused the event to be abandoned. The team missed Misano due to legal problems, and Brookes left the team, but Muggeridge returned at Brno ^[4]. He finished the season 16th with 62 points.