After all the weather woes of earlier this month it’s a welcome sight to see blue skies above Central Park this morning and all is set fair for Bank Holiday afternoon Speedway racing as the sport finally returns to Central Park Stadium after an enforced absence of 19 months.

There are five very familiar faces in the Kent Iwade Garage Royals side who take to track at Central Park on Bank Holiday Monday afternoon: four returning from their last National League campaign (in 2019 of course after 2020 became a written off season); and a local face whose been in and around the club since Speedway opened at the track and starts a season in the Kent race jacket for the first time in five years.