NEWLY named ‘Steelers’ will stage two of their National Development League fixtures at Sheffield - creating two bumper Bank Holidays of speedway in May.
Sheffield will again join forces with Scunthorpe but will now ride under the ‘Steelers’ guise after rebranding for a ‘clearer identity’.
Two of their five home National Development League contests will be held at Owlerton - the first against Belle Vue on Monday, May 5 and the second against Leicester on Monday, May 26.
Both will form a double header with the Tru7 Group Tigers taking on those senior sides as planned in the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership with a 6.30pm start on both occasions.
Sheffield promoter Damien Bates said: “We’re pleased to be linking up with Scunthorpe again - it’s a club we’ve got a good relationship with and it just works.
“We’ve decided to run under the Steelers name to save a bit of confusion and their home meetings will still be split between the two tracks.
“The NDL meetings were good at Sheffield last year and by putting them on the Bank Holiday Mondays we were already racing at home, hopefully we’ll get third tier racing out to those who might not have seen it before and they should be two entertaining nights of speedway at Owlerton for the supporters.”
Tigers Season Tickets will be valid for both events with racenight admission on those dates £30 adults, £28 concessions, whilst junior (aged 12-17) and kids (aged 11 and under) prices have been frozen at £5 and £1 respectively.
The Steelers will again be co-managed by Simon Lambert and Paul Tatam and include Adam Roynon, Luke Harrison, Luke Harris, Luke Muff, Mickie Simpson, Jamie Etherington and Harrison Rogers.
The latest Season Ticket sales event will be held at the stadium Speedway Office this Saturday (February 8) between 12 noon and 2pm.
