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GREAT Britain boss Alun Rossiter has named his team to face the Rest of the World in the Ben Fund Bonanza at Leicester on Sunday March 9.World Champion Tai Woffinden leads the side, which also includes fellow Grand Prix man Chris Harris along with Craig Cook, Ben Barker and Lewis Bridger who all have World Cup experience, whilst Richie Worrall and Kyle Howarth also earn call-ups.Rossiter said: “I think the team we will be tracking has potential, it has a bit of youth and a bit of experience, and an important thing to say is that the door isn’t shut to anybody else.“This is my first official fixture and I want to stress that I’m not excluding anyone. There’s a lot of negativity around, too much negativity in my eyes, we’re not as bad as people make us out to be. We just need to be a little bit more upbeat about ourselves, a bit more positive.”(SPEEDWAY 2)

WOLVERHAMPTON will welcome back Swedish star Freddie Lindgren for their season-opening Banks’s Olympique Classic on March 17.Lindgren is taking a year out of British racing in 2014 but will compete in the individual event along with fellow ex-Wolves Peter Karlsson, Adam Skornicki and Kenneth Hansen.He said: “I feel like I desperately need to get a few competitive races in before that first Grand Prix (in New Zealand), and I’m really happy to be coming over to England for some big meetings early in the season.“It’s especially nice to be riding at Wolverhampton in the Banks’s Olympique and I'll get the chance to race once at Monmore Green this season.”

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IPSWICH star Cameron Heeps is returning to the UK earlier than planned as he requires further surgery on his scaphoid injury.An earlier operation, which was given a 50/50 chance of success, has failed to heal the broken scaphoid, but the club have taken advice of two surgeons and their physio and believe Heeps should still be racing at the start of the season.Manager Chris Louis said: “Whilst this is obviously a blow for Cameron and has hampered his training back in Australia throughout the off-season, everyone involved is confident that he will be fit for the start of the Witches’ season on March 27, and it is also hoped that he will be fit enough to compete in Morten's (Risager) Testimonial on March 22. “The operation will be centred around stabilising the joint and eliminating the pain which should enable Cameron to feel more comfortable than at any time last season.”

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LEICESTER have confirmed they will enter a team into the National Trophy this season – giving supporters at least three more home meetings.The East Midlands club will join Kent, Mildenhall and Stoke in the competition and plan to run their home matches on Sundays at 4pm.Promoter David Hemsley said: “This is of course a new venture for the club and an exciting one at that. It gives us entry into the third tier without committing ourselves to a full programme of league racing, and we can gauge from the three home meetings whether there is support for National League racing in Leicester.“Wherever possible we would like to include Tom Perry and Max Clegg in the team along with perhaps some riders who rode for us last season in the Premier League to give the side a feel of being as close as possible a Leicester team.”