Legault at home Saturday 26th!!

The Wasps make their track debut as a team on Saturday against the Rest of the World select, with a 7pm start time.

All seven Wasps have had track time this season already having competed in the opening meeting of the season at Newport Speedway last week, the Prince of Wales trophy.

The Rest of the World are led by the winner of last weeks Prince of Wales trophy, Ryan Fisher!

“The Fish” was sublime last week, passing Niels Kristian Iversen in the final to take the honours in superb style.

He will certainly be a hard nut to crack on Saturday and the Wasps heat leaders have their work cut out in trying to stop him gaining a maximum, although Leigh Lanham got the better of him during the qualifying heats last week.

Backing up the American star will be Scunthorpe duo David Howe and Thomas Jorgensen.

Howe also took part in the Prince of Wales trophy last week scoring 8 points and is a rider who has proved time and time again that he is a huge force around the Hayley Stadium.

He has won the New Year Classic and Prince of Wales trophy in previous seasons and is without a doubt a track expert.

Jorgensen is making his British League debut this season after catching the eye of a few promoters whilst touring the UK last season.

He is also making his Queensway Meadows debut on Saturday night and it will be interesting to see how he goes.

Claus Nedermark is another young Dane and like Jorgensen is making his British League debut this season although not for Scunthorpe but the newly promoted Plymouth Devils. Again, like Jorgensen, Nedermark will be making his Queensway Meadows debut on Saturday.

Newport Hornets number 1 Jay Herne completes the Rest of the World selects top 5.

It will be very fascinating to see how Herne fares against the Wasps as well as being some valuable track time on his new home track prior to the Newport Hornets season kicking off.

Down at reserve, the Rest of the World, track Aussie Robert Branford and local lad James White Williams.

Branford was a star of the National League last season with League winners Buxton and has made the step up to the Premier League this season with Redcar. He is very highly rated and should be one of the better 3.00 reserves in the league and it will be a good test for the Newport reserves to face him.

White Williams is the official Wasps number 8 and is also a vital part of the Hornets set up for the new season.

Like Herne, the meeting will give him plenty of track time in preparation for his upcoming season with the Hornets.

Wasps promoter Steve Mallett believes the Rest of the World select team will give the Wasps a good run for their money on Saturday.

“We didn’t want to field a select team that would come to Newport and wipe the floor with us as that would do our riders no good at all and would probably have a negative impact on the crowd” said Mallett.

He added: “Instead we have put together a realistic Premier League team. It contains two class acts in Ryan Fisher and David Howe as well as some young up and coming talent who also take up heat leader positions in the Plymouth and Scunthorpe teams.

We want to give our team a competitive run out before our first league meeting with Somerset next week.

The line ups are as follows (in riding order):

Newport Wasps: Leigh Lanham, Mark Jones, Kyle Legault, Robin Aspegren, Kim Nilsson, Alex Davies, Todd Kurtz.

Rest of the World: Ryan Fisher, Jay Herne, Claus Nedermark, Thomas Jorgensen, David Howe, Robert Branford, James White Williams.