King’s Lynn round off an eventful Premiership campaign when they host Sheffield at the Adrian Flux Arena on Monday.
It’s been a season which has once again seen the PSH Environmental Stars fall short of their target of reaching the play-offs, but it has not been without its highlights.
Stars have been firmly established as the ‘best of the rest’ outside the top four, exceeding last year’s points total and also going all the way to the KO Cup Final where they were beaten by Leicester.
Home matches have thrown up plenty of good racing, and on their travels Stars have generally been a competitive unit, especially when they were able to track a full-strength side.
The visit of the Tigers gives Lynn the chance to avenge one of their most frustrating results of the season when the Yorkshire side collected a 48-42 win at the AFA back in mid-May.
The prime catalyst for that result was an incredible 16+1 haul from former Stars captain Lewis Kerr at reserve, although as an indication of how fortunes can change in speedway, Kerr lost his place with the Tigers last month.
Before last night’s clash with Belle Vue, the Stars had won four of their last five matches, a run of form which in many ways mirrors the end of 2024, although on this occasion they are doing it with their own riders rather than with a patched-up side full of guests.
Team manager Rob Lyon said: “Another win would be nice to finish off the season and to send the fans away in a happy mood.
“We did it a bit last year towards the end, and ironically we have been doing so again this year.
“We’d like to give ourselves a bit of momentum going into the winter, but we’ll see what happens.
“There’s nothing been decided about next year yet, and there is a lot of talking to be done – a lot of talking!”
Meanwhile, Stars racer Chris Harris is now in with a real chance of becoming World Long Track Champion for the first time in his career.
Harris, who was runner-up in 2023 after taking the title fight down to the wire, won Round 3 of the four-round series at Scheesel in Germany last weekend, his first-ever victory on a 1,000-metre oval, the largest type of venue in the competition.
The more grasstrack-based Roden circuit in the Netherlands hosts the decider on September 21, with Harris just four points adrift of leader Lukas Fienhage from Germany, with another British rider, Zach Wajtknecht, two points behind Fienhage.
