Precocious teenager Luke Harrison will represent Workington Comets in the NDL Riders Championship at Northside on Sunday.
Harrison, 16, comes into the line-up as replacement for Comets’ number one Connor Bailey who is riding in Poland.He is required by his Polish club Wroclaw for their play-off final.
This is the most high profile meeting to be staged at the arena so far with the top two riders from each third tier team battling it out for the title.
Harrison will represent the Comets along with Sam McGurk who has been struggling with a knee injury but will be fit to ride on Sunday.
Last year’s champion Jordan Jenkins is back to defend his crown while runner-up Max Clegg, himself a former winner of the event is also in the field.
Former winners Adam Roynon and Ben Morley are also included and a number of riders who have made impressive appearances at Northside already this year will surely make it a hard fought meeting with any one of them capable of winning.
The full line up joining the Comets pair is Jack Smith and James Pearson for Belle Vue, Danny Phillips and Jamie Halder representing Berwick, Edinburgh’s Adam Roynon and Max Clegg, the Kent duo of Ben Morley and Nathan Ablitt, Leicester’s Joe Thompson and Max Perry, Alfie Bowtell and Lee Complin of Mildenhall while Jordan Jenkins, who has yet to ride at Northside, is joined by his Oxford team-mate Henry Atkins.
It’s a big honour for the track in its first season to be asked to stage the prestigious event and in another first for the Workington promotion the meeting is also scheduled to be shown live by the British Speedway Network (BSN) streaming service.
Meanwhile in other speedway news Workington youngster and Meteors rider Laylan Richardson is set to make his National League debut when he will be making a guest appearance for Mildenhall in their penultimate league meeting at Edinburgh on Friday.
Laylan is stepping in at reserve for the unavailable Sam Woolley alongside another guest as Sam Ward also comes in for William Richardson.
A regular at the Northside venue when it ran as the training track he has been an ever present for the reborn Meteors team in the Northern Junior League this season.
In another first for the Workington promotion the meeting is also scheduled to be shown live by the British Speedway Network (BSN) streaming service.
Pictures coming through first two by Dave Payne, third one as indicated.
