Coventry Bees Speedway Team are hoping that their Elite League season starts tonight when the Bees take on Birmingham at Brandon on Friday (7.30pm).
The Bees have said that they fully intend for the meeting to go ahead ahead as scheduled and have been working on the track which has come in for some criticism following the abandoning of Coventry Storm's meeting and the postponement of the Elite Riders meeting on Sunday.
Bees have elected to deploy Ryan Fisher with Hans Andersen in a strong-looking opening partnership, with skipper Chris Harris taking the No.5 riding position.
The Brummies make one change to their regular line-up, having called-up Coventry asset and last year’s Storm No.1 Joe Jacobs to guest for the unavailable Paul Starke, whilst Ben Barker and Edward Kennett provide them with plenty of additional Brandon experience.
Bees promoter Mick Horton said: “We can’t wait to get our team on track. We worked hard on building it over the winter, there is a good spirit there already and we know we have to get it right. Hopefully we can do just that against Birmingham.
“Obviously we are subject to the weather, and I know a lot of other matches have been called off this week, so we just have to keep our fingers crossed on that.”
A full second-half is also planned featuring the riders who will figure in the Mercia-Vikings team in the upcoming Midland Development League campaign.
BUILDBASE BEES: Hans Andersen, Ryan Fisher, Kenneth Hansen, Kyle Howarth, Chris Harris, Jason Garrity, James Sarjeant.
BIRMINGHAM: Danny King, Adam Skornicki, Ben Barker, Daniel Nermark, Edward Kennett, Simon Lambert, Joe Jacobs.
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