WITCHES ANNOUNCE U19 PLAN

IPSWICH have revealed early details of plans to run a special individual meeting for Under-19s next season.

Witches promoter Chris Louis says they want to give the sport’s developing talent an insight into all areas of the sport, with a special prize for the winner.

He said: “It’s all about giving the British youngsters the experience of a big meeting. Everything is to be confirmed at the moment, but we’re hoping that Great Britain Speedway will be present to do a bit of a presentation to the young lads and we will have our own senior riders involved to help them with track walk and advice.

“Again, to be confirmed, we’re hoping that BSN will have an involvement so that they can learn a little bit about talking to the media, pre, during and post event.

“It’s just to give them a whole experience that they don’t ordinarily get, and all the prizes will be based around helping them, and equipment and stuff for speedway.

“Ultimately, the prize for winning is a sort of scholarship with Ipswich to give them a hand with advice from riders and mechanics. A one-on-one training session and that sort of thing, so it’s really exciting.

“It’s still in the planning stage but as soon as we’ve got all the definite details, we’ll obviously be putting it out there.”