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Nick Morris will guest for Edinburgh on Friday (against Scunny) in place of Paco Castagna

It’s been a while but speedway’s back with a bang in the Borders this Saturday. Typically dreich spring weather means it will be 49 days since the last high-octane racing action at Shielfield Park. But who better to relaunch the season than Glasgow Tigers, a team packed with track specialists against a Bandits side hoping to welcome back Peter Kildemand to the fold after injury and handing a debut to Jordan Jenkins. At 43, Chris “Bomber” Harris shows no sign of slowing down and recently qualified for the World Championship Challenge while Berwick-born-and-based Leon Flint, the ultra-exciting Kyle Howarth and Danish newcomer Kevin Juhl Pedersen all know their way around Britain’s paciest racetrack. But in Nick Morris the Bandits also have an all-out racer in fine form, guesting for a number of clubs and riding with Premiership Leicester during the Bandits’ hiatus, while Victor Palovaara was just two points away from joining Harris in the GP Challenge. Berwick already have an eight-point victory under their belts over their noisy neighbours, in the BSN Series. That went right down to the wire and there’s no reason to think Saturday night will be any different. As always accompanied under-16s go free so make a family night of it at Shielfield Park where there are 1,400 seats in the covered grandstand, terracing and grass banking viewing areas which allow you to get up close and personal to the action. There’s also two licensed bars and a takeaway hot food restaurant. Gates open at 6pm, first race is at 7pm. Buy your tickets online from berwickspeedway.com/tickets or pay cash on the night. Oh, and parking's free.

Maybe time for the Island club to "come home" to ACU speedway, and rejoin the NDL next year?

Time for Pirates to tremble .....

Jordan Jenkins recruited on 28 day contract, standing in for Reid Battye

Not for anyone who watched him at Glasgow last night!

Actually, ten years ago there wasn't a whisker of the technology you can deploy today. The new updates are driven directly from each referee's laptop as it updates within a few seconds if every race, every match. Quite astoundingly quick

The line-ups logged with SCB were posted on Wednesday morning, and both teams will obviously have changes. Speedway Updates will shortly be history, as the new BSP update facility is lightning quick.

Luke Harrison now for Simon Lambert, who was to replace the Dane. Jack Smith will replace Mario Hausl.

Simon Lambert guests

According to BSPL lists, Bandits' off-race night is Wednesday.

Strengthen? Scunny are second top of the league this morning. Why strengthen?

Last night's meeting at Northampton started at exactly 7.30. The show began with a parade of competing riders, introductions and the like. This over, racing commenced with the first heat going to the tapes at 7.45. Northampton is currently the best-attended speedway in Britain, so why shouldn't they show off their wares with a parade, etc? They advertise starting at 7.30, that's what they did .......

He wasn't a guest last Friday

Luke K will be r/r. I believe Berwick's Sam Hagon will be at reserve

Fraser Bowes has posted that he hopes to be back on Wednesday.

While disappointing that Dan Thompson and Tom Brennan aren't in the draw proper, it is absolutely correct that the British Final finishing order is used for GB nominations.

Making a rearranged meeting on that night a no-go. The previous week (next Saturday) was offered to both Scunthorpe and Redcar -- both declined. Week after is Belle Vue GP. Roll on June 13th!

Indeed. Sorry, my bad.

Wait and see

Sorry, Rowe is above Russ in averages, so he is the "one above". Sam can't be a tac sub in that team.

Simon will be a Bear at Berwick tomorrow

Jody is listed by the Bears as riding on both Friday at home and Saturday (at Berwick)

Not sure on that. Drew's final CMA for Bandits in 2025 was 8.08 This year at Leicester he is currently on 4.72 (converts to 7.08 for CL) As PK is currently on 7.86 (which converts to 8.25 for home meeting guests) I'm thinking Drew has to be at his '25 average. That's why he can't be Berwick's guest at Scunny on Friday (Edinburgh's gain!) but can guest for Bandits on Saturday. I think. Alternative scenarios welcomed!

Fair question, but a rider can guest in any league if (a) he's in a 1-7 in any of our three leagues, and (b) his average is lower than the rider he's covering for