HE HAILS from Little Rock, Arkansas - the home town of US President Bill Clinton - and he's top of Carl Fogarty's hit list.

John Kocinski is loud-mouthed and arrogant. He is also just four points behind Fogarty in the championship race.

But he will need all the President's men to prevent Foggy making him eat his words at Brands Hatch this weekend.

"I seriously don't like Kocinski and I don't like what he's been saying," said the Blackburn ace, who leads the World Superbikes championship table in his quest for a third title.

"He thinks he's better than everybody. He has no respect. And what's he ever done? Nothing.

"I've won two world superbikes titles and I want to teach him a thing or two on Sunday about what it is to be a real winner."

Fogarty has about 80,000 other reasons to win at Brands Hatch this weekend. One of the toughest circuits on the superbikes calendar is sold out and all 80,000 fans will be there to cheer on a home win.

"Well, they haven't come to see a foreigner win instead," suggested 31-year-old Fogarty.

He has produced some of his best form on home tracks.

Two years ago he achieved the double at both Donington and Brands Hatch and his best weekend this season came at the Donington meeting where he finished second in the opening race and first in the second.

"You give your all every week to do well," said Fogarty. "But in front of your home fans, you summon that little bit extra."

Fogarty's Ducati team-mate, Burnley's Neil Hodgson, could do with summoning something extra this weekend.

He lies 10th in the table, a position he admits he must improve on.

"I should be in the top five and my aim from here to the end of the season is to get there," he said.

A motocross accident which smashed his kneecap forced him out of the fifth round of the championship at Monza and seriously hampered him on his return in the last round at Laguna Seca, the American circuit that has yielded his sole podium finish.

But he insists that he is much improved ahead of Sunday's race.

"It still aches a lot but it's a lot better than it was in America," said the 22-year-old.

"I was very, very uncomfortable there. I was in so much pain and that affects your concentration which obviously affected my performances (Hodgson could manage only ninth position in the second race).

"The pain is nothing like that now and I'm ready to put in two good racing performances. It would be nice to produce something special for the home fans.

"Carl and I will both be trying our hardest to do that." Provisional qualifying was taking place today on the circuit with final qualifying to be held tomorrow ahead of Sunday's two races.

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