Mick Harley, from the Findon Club, has finally got League Night Racing off the ground and running with scheduled mid week events.

Mick's pretty excited about it all and so are the riders who made this a reallity by agreeing to attend the events. The , much needed extra riding , will keep racers sharper than ever and the brilliant mixing of teams ,by using riders from other clubs as a inter club league already exists.

This is a new concept , completely. Each team comprises , riders with each team having members from all the competing clubs , something that will be great to see, even our distant relative , Murraylands, has riders involved.

There will be two divisions to each side , those being , a First and Second Division. Riders aged 12 and upward that can race a 26" bike are involved on ability rather than age.ie, Second Division , with the provisor of being able to ride in First Division ,if needed.An update that I have just recieved states The Fist Div teams will race a 18 man formula while the Second Div uses the six man 12 race formula.

This idea originally surfaced halfway through last year when Paul White questioned riders on the feasability of this getting off the ground and was met with limited success. Now after the world titles everyone wants to race more , it's a goer.

League racing in Australia started back in the early 90's when the Findon Club offered other clubs to join in and create this type of racing and apparently it was a savage sort of affair between the clubs involved, nothing like the regulated, controlled League racing of today. Teams such as the"Coca Cola Comets" , "Mars Bar Injectors" and the "Aces" were formed.

Control of League racing was then handed over to the Cycle Speedway Council by the end of the nineties and those teams became the "Findon Comets" the "LeFevre Dolphins" and the "Salisbury Jets".

As this new League isn't a sactioned event some colourful names have been thought up and Paul White suggested seeing this is an outlaw event they use a Ned Kelly (reknown Aussie Bush Ranger and outlaw) inspired theme and it works fine with the "Bush Rangers", "Outlaws" and "Bandits".

The teams will, with their respective clubs blessings, use their club league gernseys for the time being , just to be able to identify clubs while racing, while their own racing tops are made etc.

They have incorpriated all the Aussie team riders , both seniors and juniors to compete amongst themselves along with all the awesome riders we still have here that didn't make the worlds, should be good and the vibes I'm getting back from the riders is excellent.This competition has no club or Council control and has no trophies that I know of , I can't see that staying that way for too long though , and , being the raging success it will undoubtfully be, I can see this also being adopted by the Council as an official event as riders that cannot compete on weekends , will be able to at night.

I will be covering all these fixtures and filming also , so I can't wait until the first Tuesday in June 2009 to be at Findon at 7.30 for the big opening event!