42 Facts About Ryan Farquhar

Ryan Farquhar won five races at the Cookstown 100 in one day and holds the most Irish national wins by any one rider, at 201.

Ryan Farquhar previously raced a Kawasaki ZX-10R, a Kawasaki ZX-6R and a Kawasaki ER6.

Ryan Farquhar then won the 2005 TT Supersport, giving him two victories on the Isle of Man.

On 28 April 2006, Ryan Farquhar signed a new deal to ride with the factory TAS Suzuki Racing Team.

Ryan Farquhar was involved in a collision with a back marker in practice where he suffered injuries which ruled him out of most of the season.

In 2008 Ryan Farquhar was back to his best form dominating races week in week out, and ended the year as a double Irish Champion winning the Irish Superbike road racing championship, the Irish Supersport road racing Championship and finishing first overall in the Duke Road Race Rankings.

Ryan Farquhar had agreed to race for the McAdoo Kawasaki Racing Team for the 2008 season.

However, they parted company in the week preceding the Isle of Man TT, meaning Ryan Farquhar participated in the TT riding for his new sponsor Kenny Harker, in the Superstock 1000 and Supersport 600 classes.

Previously, Ryan Farquhar had enjoyed his early taste of success with McAdoo having had competed in the team's colours at such meetings as the Manx Grand Prix.

Ryan Farquhar overtook Lougher each time at the final Castletown Corner but the superior acceleration of Lougher's machine saw him back in the lead by the time they reached the finish line and this was how it unfolded on the final lap.

Ryan Farquhar was in attendance at the Irish Racer Magazine awards ceremony in Belfast where he picked up both the National Road Racer of the Year and Team of the Year awards.

Ryan Farquhar received the highly prestigious Duke Road Race Rankings trophy, the third time he had taken this particular award, given to the rider who records the highest number of points over the 25 road races held in the British Isles during the course of the year.

Ryan Farquhar beat Laverty and Rea when he was voted the NGK Enkalon Irish Motorcyclist of the Year, by the general public.

At the 2010 Isle of Man TT, Ryan Farquhar took two second-place finishes, in the Superstock and Senior TTs.

Ryan Farquhar wrapped up his superb 2010 racing season with more success, when he took two wins at the annual Sunflower Trophy races at Bishopscourt.

Ryan Farquhar got his 2011 road racing season underway in perfect style when he dominated the Ian Watson Trophy races at Oliver's Mount, Scarborough.

Ryan Farquhar won all 7 races that he started including the feature trophy race for the fourth consecutive year.

However, his winning start to the season was tempered with disappointment at the North West 200, which saw Ryan Farquhar suffering one of his worst meetings in years.

Ryan Farquhar had been hoping to put on a strong showing around the 8.9-mile circuit but all he had to show for his efforts was a 7th place in the Supersport race.

Unbeknown to him, the bike had sprung an oil leak although the bike was still running at full power but further along the coast road, Ryan Farquhar realised something was wrong and he pulled off the course as soon as it was safe to do so and his race was over.

Ryan Farquhar crashed at Keppel Gate in the closing stages of the session when he hit a false neutral on his Superbike machine.

Ryan Farquhar grabbed another 3rd in the Senior race and 5th in the Open race, the only blemish coming with a retirement in the 600cc race.

Ryan Farquhar finished his 2011 Irish road race season with another haul of wins, this time claiming a hat-trick at the Killalane road races.

The meeting went ahead after the removal of a controversial chicane and Ryan Farquhar claimed victories on the KMR Kawasakis in the Superbike, Supertwin and 450cc races adding a brace of seconds to his results for the day.

Ryan Farquhar opened his 2012 account at Bishopscourt where he won both Supertwin races.

Ryan Farquhar took a hat-trick of race wins and the Man of the Meeting award at the Tandragee 100 road races.

Ryan Farquhar took the honours in the Open, Supertwins and Moto 450 races and backed this up with two extremely hard fought runner-up spots behind Michael Dunlop in the Supersport and feature Superbike events.

Ryan Farquhar was forced out on the third lap after experiencing handling problems from lap one onwards whilst Hamilton, on his TT race debut, had to stop on the fifth lap with suspected fuel pump problems.

Ryan Farquhar took third place in the Superstock TT race.

Ryan Farquhar completed his 2012 Isle of Man TT campaign with victory in the re-introduced Lightweight TT race.

Ryan Farquhar's eventual winning margin was almost 30 seconds as he swept to the third TT win of his career.

The win resulted in Ryan Farquhar finishing 6th in the Joey Dunlop TT Championship Trophy, with 32 points.

On 16 March 2016 it was announced that Ryan Farquhar would be part of the Tyco BMW Team for some of the 2016 racing season, taking over Guy Martin's entries for the Isle of Man TT on a Superbike, as well as campaigning a BMW Superstock machine.

Ryan Farquhar joined the Tyco BMW squad for the North West 200 races, again riding his own machinery in the Super Twin event.

Ryan Farquhar was impacted by Cooper's machine and after treatment at the scene to stabilise his condition was transported by helicopter to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast where he underwent surgery for his injuries.

However, in December 2013, Ryan Farquhar announced he would make a comeback alongside former rival Keith Amor for the KMR Racing Team in the Supertwins class at the 2014 Isle of Man TT.

Ryan Farquhar began his comeback at the Ian Watson Spring Cup at Oliver's Mount in Scarborough, where he scored two-second places in Supertwins races.

Amor and Ryan Farquhar entered the 2014 Tandragee 100, where Ryan Farquhar won the 500 Classic and 450 races to score the 200th and 201st wins of his career.

Ryan Farquhar subsequently appeared as part of a four-strong KMR line-up at the 2014 North West 200, alongside Amor, Jeremy McWilliams and Connor Behan.

Ryan Farquhar finished fifth and sixth in the two Supertwins races.

Ryan Farquhar subsequently retired from motorcycle racing in order to concentrate on the management of his racing team.

Ryan Farquhar was awarded the British Empire Medal in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to motorcycle racing.