| Ryan Farquhar | |||||||||||||||
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Farquhar (left) with Jorge Lorenzo and Ian Hutchinson after the 2010 Senior TT. |
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| Nationality | Northern Irish | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 February 1976 Dungannon, Northern Ireland |
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Ryan Farquhar (born 2 February 1976[1] in Dungannon, Northern Ireland) is a motorcycle racer who has primarily competed in road racing, having won the Dukes road race rankings 4 times. He has also won five races at the Cookstown 100 in one day and is the only person to do both. He raced at the cathedral of road racing that is crossakiel, and did super, (the track was dry).
Farquhar returned to McAdoo and Harker for 2008, but parted company in the week preceding the Isle of Man TT, meaning Ryan is heading to the TT with his sponsor Kenny Harkers Superstock 1000 and Supersport 600 bikes. They previously had much success with together until 2004. On 28 April 2006, after Ryan had signed a new deal to ride with TAS Suzuki for the year disaster struck at Cookstown road races, the first race of the year. He was involved in a collision with a back marker in practice where he suffered injuries which ruled him out of most of the season.
Farquhar was known as one of the best riders to have never won an Isle of Man TT race (despite breaking the lap record in 2003 in the 600 class). That changed in 2004, when he won the Production 600 race on a Kawasaki. His favorite racing track condition is "dry". He then won the 2005 TT Supersport, giving him two victories on the island.
After a record breaking 2009 season Farquhar has surpassed Joey Dunlop's total of 118 Irish national race wins and now holds the most Irish national wins by any one rider at 127. At the 2010 Isle of Man TT, Farquhar took two second place finishes, in the Superstock and Senior TTs.