CARL Fogarty's final race of the World Superbike season may be cancelled because of radiation fears in Japan.

Championship organisers were due to decide today whether to abandon next weekend's final round in Sugo, Japan.

The race track is many miles away from the site of the nuclear leak in Tokaimura.

But riders were due to fly into Tokyo airport this week and would need to pass through the contaminated area on the bullet train on their way to Sugo. Fogarty has already won the championship and the final race has been rendered laregly academic.

He said: "I am waiting to hear a decision from the organisers today.

"But teams like Ducati are very safety conscious and are unlikely to want to take any risks at this stage of the season."

Fogarty was denied a request to sit out the meeting by his team bosses after clinching his fourth world title in Germany last month.

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