Final clearance allows Foggy to appear at Brands.

In reality it has only been three months but for Carl Fogarty it must have seemed like a lifetime. Foggy has finally been given medical clearance by his doctors to begin training once again, allowing the Blackburn rider to re-build the muscle in his broken left arm.

It has been touch and go for several weeks whether or not the arm, which Carl broke at Phillip Island in April, would heal without causing any nerve damage which would obviously mean the end of his career. However after plating the bone and monitoring the healing process intensely for the past three months it has become clear that the nerves are undamaged allowing Foggy to make a complete recovery.

Now that he ha been cleared to ride, the four time World Superbike Champion has confirmed that he will take in a few celebratory laps at Brands Hatch in August to thank his thousands and thousands of loyal fans for the support they have shown since he was injured.

"It'll be a great chance to thank the fans who have stayed so loyal to me even though I haven't been able to race," said Foggy after it was finally confirmed that he would be able to begin the re-building program for his arm.

"The muscles are responding in the way that they are meant to, which is a big relief," said the rider who has vowed to return to the seat next year to bid for a fifth WSB crown. "But the muscle has wasted away pretty badly and I've nowhere near the same strength in the injured arm as the other one.

Foggy's laps on his Ducati 996 will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of a weekend which sees one of the best party atmospheres in British Motorsport. No doubt aided by improved and expanded facilities, the WSB regulars still pull in more passionate fans than the British Formula One Grand Prix did in the mid 1980's.