PALM TOFT ON TARGET

PETERBOROUGH No.1 Michael Palm Toft is bang on target for the new season after his agonising finger injuries healed.

Danish racer Palm Toft rode through the pain barrier after a semi-final crash at Wolverhampton last autumn to help the team to the Premiership title in spectacular style, and he will be back with the Panthers for their defence this year.

He said: “The fingers have healed up now, I’m almost there. It’s taken a long time, but just about a month ago I started using my index finger properly again, so all is more or less back to normal apart from my little finger which is a little bit bigger than it used to be.

“I spent the first bit of the off-season resting my fingers, I felt I had to do that.

“I bought a motocross bike and I’ve been riding that to keep bike-fit. Other than that, I just spent time with family and sorting things out for speedway.”