The Kent CTA Fire Kings finally get their pre-season preparations underway this weekend as they head to Hertfordshire for the Cavalcade of Speed Gala meeting.

They head to Rye House Speedway Stadium as they play host to a full afternoon of racing which includes more than just speedway.

The solo Speedway machines are on the undercard of a full afternoon’s racing featuring the unique excitement served up by QRUK in one of their hugely popular Quad Speedway championship meetings; but the demonstration races will be an ideal opportunity for the trio of Kings’ riders to blow away the winter cobwebs in earnest.

Taking to the track will be Ben Morley (on familiar territory for Essex-based Ben, as Rye House has been his ‘parent’ track since coming into the shale racing game) and 2014 new signings, Daniel Blake and Brandon Freemantle. For Blake and ex-Isle of Wight Islander Freemantle, a former GB Youth Champion, this will be an important afternoon as both are on the comeback trail after extended periods absent due to injury.

Harlow-born Blake, who rode for the Iwade-based Sittingbourne Crusaders in Speedway’s Conference League in the late noughties, will be sounding out another of his former home tracks, with his other role for 2014 – captaining the Rye House junior side in the Midland Development League – in mind.

Joining the three Kent CTA Fire Kings lads in the Speedway demonstration races (eight heats planned in total) will be senior Rye House men, former GB Under 21 champion and twice a Grand Prix ‘wild card’ rider, Eddie Kennett, Luke Bowen and Kent racing legend, Stevie Boxall.

For Boxall this will be his first outing since leaving Kent to return to Premier League Rye House – and will be a welcome return to the scene of his 2014 record-breaking second National League Riders individual Championship triumph. Kent Kings’ fans are sure to give their Canterbury-born former skipper a massive ovation.

Talking of Canterbury, the very popular Eddie Kennett is the nephew of former Canterbury Speedway stalwart Barney Kennett, part of that most famous of Kent motorcycling clans.  Rye House testimonial man for 2014 Bowen featured in the last meeting of 2013 at Central Park when he finished runner-up to Boxall in the Silverski Championship.

So plenty of interest for travelling Kings’ fans on top of a superb afternoon of racing featuring the four-wheelers of the Quad Speedway discipline featuring a number of riders from the Garden of England with a full senior and junior racing line up plus the harum scarum excitement of the manic Mini-bikes and also a Short Track Racing class as well.

The action gets underway at mid-day and admission is £5 for adults with children free.  Rye House Speedway Stadium is next to Rye House Station on Rye Rd, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire EN11 0EH.