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Robins’ potential excites Rosco

THE potential improvement in the Great Britain manager is “I’m sure there will be some
his Swindon Robins team gets confident of keeping up his 100 negative people, there always
boss Alun Rossiter more and per cent record of reaching the are, but our goal is the play-offs
more excited every time he play-offs in what will be his as it always is.
looks at his 2015 line-up. fourth season since returning to “The club and I don’t do
The Blunsdon side boss added the club from Coventry. anything else but the play-offs,
the final piece of the jigsaw “The more and more I look at it we’ve shown that over the last
yesterday with the signing of the more excited I am about it, I few years.”
number one Adrian Miedzinski, just think there is so much room The new season gets under-
placing him alongside captain for improvement in there,” he way in March, with the Robins
Troy Batchelor, Grzegorz Zengo- told Link Sport. hosting the Speedway Riders
ta, Nick Morris, Kyle Howarth “It goes all the way through Benevolent Fund meeting on
and reserves Charles Wright and and that’s what you’ve got to 8 March before the Bob Kilby
Lewis Rose for 2015. look at, you can see some teams Memorial Meeting on 26 March.
With each of his top five riders and there’s not a lot of improve- The Elite League campaign is
having something to prove and ment in many of the riders, they due to begin with home and Alun Rossiter, excited ahead of the
with his reserve pairing among are what they are, but with this away meetings against Poole on new speedway season
the Elite League’s strongest, team there’s bags of potential. 3 April.
Kyle has kept the
Adrian excited to get going hunger for 2015

RETURNING Robin Kyle Howarth
is hopeful staying on the bike over
the winter will help when the new
season begins this month.
The 20-year-old, who is back
with Swindon for a second spell
in 2015, has spent his winter on a
racing holiday in Australia where he
competed in a number of events in-
cluding the Rob Woffinden Classic,
held in memory of Tai Woffinden’s
late father.
Howarth made the podium in
several of the events he competed
in and also enjoyed a handful of
practice sessions while staying with
close friend Josh Grajczonek in Aus-
tralia, which he believes will benefit
him going forward.
“I was down in Perth which was
Star Pole completes Swindon’s 2015 septet really good and I rode in a few
meetings there, the Rob Woffinden
Classic and a couple more, and got
ADRIAN Miedzinski has insisted the to his diary before the start of the and didn’t find a club. on the podium so it all went pretty
reduced British fixture list and his year, and it’s his quest for more time “Maybe I will still sign in Sweden well,” he said.
desire for more time on the bike were on the bike and the more manageable because before the start of the season “It was a mixture of racing and
the key factors in his return to UK British schedule which has tempted we have an open window and maybe I having some time to relax, but I had
speedway, after signing on to become him back. can sign a contract there. a bike there and it was good to be
Swindon Robins’ number one in 2015. “I’m back and I’m very happy of “This is no problem now, racing on it.
The Pole arrives at Blunsdon for the course,” he told Link Sport during his in Poland, Sweden and England, “It’s all about staying fresh but
entirety of the 2015 campaign on visit to Swindon recently. because now in England also having time on the
an 8.21 average, which will see him “I need more racing and I need more we have only 28 meet- The British speedway bike, that’s really im-
start at number one, as he returns meetings, I’m back to Swindon which ings which is better season begins at Blunsdon on portant, because you
to the club he raced for during the is where I rode many years ago and because it’s hard March 8 as the Robins host the don’t want to be go-
2006 season following a brief stint at I know people at the track and feel racing 50 matches annual Ben Fund Bonanza, in ing into the season
Eastbourne. good here. here and living in aid of the sport’s injured riders. rusty or feeling like
Since then Miedzinski, who started “I remember it all, this was nine or Poland.” The meeting begins at 4pm and you haven’t been on
the 2012 season with Poole, has twice 10 years ago but it was my first full Miedzinski teams features a four-team the bike for ages.
helped his country to World Cup gold season in England after I raced in up with familiar international tournament “It’s hard to get
and won a Grand Prix in his home Eastbourne only in the summer time faces Grzegorz Zengota track time in the UK
town of Torun in 2013 to ensure he is so this was a very good school for me. and Troy Batchelor, who at this time of the year
on the cusp of the world’s elite. “Many times I’ve thought about this he has regularly competed with because of the weather so it was
Currently, the 29-year-old is only decision and I didn’t sign a contract in and against on the continent, as well good to enjoy some sun but also
contracted to race for the Robins and Sweden because my club (Vargarna) as Aussie Nick Morris and young have some time on the bike. It’s all
for powerhouse Torun in his home- have dropped down a league which English riders Kyle Howarth, Charles good when you look towards the
land, although he could add Sweden is not ideal, and I have a big average Wright and Lewis Rose. start of the season.”
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