Coventry Bees take on Lakeside in the penultimate home Elite League fixture of the season tonight weather permitting (7.30pm).
The Bees are without Krzysztof Kasprzak who is in Russia this weekend for the third round of the Speedway Euro Championship and these meetings do not permit a ‘facility’ of a senior guest or rider replacement, so Bees have to use a Premier League rider with a sub-6.00 average, and Scunthorpe’s Michael Palm Toft – comes in.
Bees boss Gary Havelock said to the club website: Havelock said: “We’ve battled adversity before, and if we ride as we did against Swindon last Monday then we can win this match, and winning at home is very much the main thing.
“I know Lakeside are desperate for points, especially away, and they’ll be looking at this fixture as a golden chance, exactly as I would be doing if I was going somewhere in a similar situation.
“But it’s important to us to keep winning our home matches and keep entertaining the public, which is something I feel we have done this season. It’s still a match we are very capable of winning.”
Bees visit Purfleet for the return fixture on Saturday (7.45pm), and prior to that the City Gearboxes Storm are in action at Rye House at 2pm.
BUILDBASE BEES (from): Josh Bates, Jason Garrity, Chris Harris, Danny King, Michael Palm Toft, James Sarjeant, Kacper Woryna.
LAKESIDE (from): Lewis Bridger, Andreas Jonsson, Edward Kennett, Lewis Kerr, Richard Lawson, Robert Mear, Kim Nilsson.