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At one point I know he had 16 engines in his workshop last year, 5 in chassis and 11 on the shelf, that’s some amount of £££ being thrown around there. Well established riders I know have always had 3 fully built chassis in UK and roughly 6-8 engines on the shelf that have a bit of a sell, keep, sell merry go round

Believe Dan Thompson will ride at number 2 at Leicester with Douglas and the middle order will be Nick Morris at 3 and Kyle Howarth at 4. Based on UK tracks being not very Polish and Thorsell being in main body of the team like I’d rank them Cook, Wright/Howarth, Thorsell, Rowe & Kildemand. Thorsell won’t have ridden Owlerton for years if at all, plus a Buster type grippy Norfolk Arena ain’t for most, there’s only NSS he’s had experience on in recent years

Thorsell has had offers from both Ipswich and Northampton, not sure if he’s agreed a deal with either though, but info was he wants to ride in UK in 2026

I’d say the confirmed 5 as Brennan, King, Musielak, Nicholls and Edwards

Can see Scott Nicholls back at Ipswich at number 2 or 4, especially if the owners aren’t into much of a Hurry to announce the new team manager 😜

He’s ok if you’ve got a spare £3k guarantee for him for every meeting, he might even do the odd ht15!

The rider I spoke to last week said he expects fixtures to be out in the next 2 weeks (mid to late Feb), so a bit more waiting time yet by the sounds of it 🙄

Think riders like Kyle Howarth, Dan Thompson, Leon Flint etc (Champions heatleders/Premiership second strings) would only really know if they could afford to do one league once they knew what points money they were going to be offered as no guarantees available. Based on 2025 numbers racing 1 night a week for both clubs you’d imagine at Glasgow in the Championship he’d have been on around £120 a point, average 11 points over 5 rides is £1,375 and Leicester around £160 a point average 6 points over 4 rides is £640, not heat leader money of £200+ a point, so in the one big league scenario he’d need to earn £2,015 a week to break even from 2025, so in a watered down one big league you’d expect him to average say roughly 7.5 points a meeting over 4/5 rides so that’s over £270 a point which isn’t going to happen, as even with 14 teams it’s unlikely you’d race 2 times a week often. Can’t imagine him or any rider wanting to race for less than on previously as mechanics pay, bike maintenance, bike parts etc all gone north in costs

From what I was told earlier in the week he’d shown an interest

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From what I was told the new owners want to be Ruthless when it comes to signings

It’ll be something like more fan interaction like they tried to do towards end of last season, stuff like social media question with centre green experience, team photo and all that sort of thing I’d imagine.

Sponsorship deal with Guy Nicholls ended last season. Not heard of a new deal with him is in place so could be new main sponsors at Sheffield, AB Race Cruisers/AutoCraft?

Kemp 100% at number 6

Last signing going to be Pickering, shame as he’s as he’s thinking he’s at a different level than he actually is, Championship heat leader at best, nowhere near the Kurtz, Fricke, J Holder, Bewley level on his best of days. Would rather settle with someone with room for home and improvement away than a one track pony home rider