Kent Kings

By Neil Emmott

Kent Kings' new signing seven-times British Champion Scott Nicholls, reflects on what is to come when circumstances finally allow the tapes to rise on the 2020 campaign.

The 41-year-old commented, "I'm really keen to race for the Kings. When you have been around in the sport as long as I have and ridden for many of the teams in the leagues , it's unusual to race for a team I've neither raced for nor against. And remarkable too that it'll be for a promoter, in Len Silver, who I have never raced for either. I obviously know all about Len's amazing background in the sport, including being a three-times World Team Cup winner as England manager, and I have a lot of respect for Len and loads of time for him."

Entering into a remarkable 27th year of league racing in the UK, Nicholls goes on, "Apart from going along for the announcement of my signing at the back end of last year and that was in the dark then. I've not actually seen the track at Central Park. But I've heard good things about it and it sounds like it falls under the banner of being a more technical track. I'm looking forward to getting on there and getting racing."

Obviously for Nicholls and his new charges in the TouchTec-sponsored Kings outfit now, though, it's a case - along with everyone else in the sport - of kicking of heels awaiting news on when the go-ahead may come. Now based on the south coast after hailing originally from that Speedway hot-bed of Ipswich in Suffolk, Scott says, "It's great for me to have the excitement of a new track and challenge to look forward to. It's something new and new people to work with which is what the doctor ordered really. "It's just frustrating that we're waiting in the wings at the minute for this virus to do one so we can crack on with racing.".