Kent’s only league Speedway club, the Kent SLYDE Kings are getting into the festive spirit with a gift which will ensure that the Swale area becomes the most vibrant area in the UK for the development of the sport.

The air fence at Central Park Stadium used for Speedway meetings is in the process of being transported to the nearby Iwade Speedway track – where it will be erected in the New Year.

This will enable the track at the Old Gun Site in Iwade (home of Sittingbourne Speedway Club) to gain an official “Practice Track” licence with the Speedway Control Bureau, at which point Iwade will become the Kent SLYDE Kings’ official training circuit and a starting point for local riders to make their bid to race for the only league team in the county.

A new air fence has been purchased for Central Park Stadium and is due to be installed in March 2016, ready for the new National League Speedway season.

Kent co-promoter Len Silver said of this move: “Although this has been quite an expensive exercise, gifting the existing air fence to the club over at Iwade and having to purchase a new air safety barrier for our track at Central Park, both Kent Speedway Club Chairman Roger Cearns and myself feel that it will pay considerable dividends in the future”

Silver goes on: “I’m not sure many people appreciate the difficulty in getting new young riders to be able to get to the Sittingbourne area for our early Monday start time and parents having to take time off work to get their sons there.”

“Also of course we have no facility available to us at Central Park for training or practice. Given time, this facility at Iwade could go a long way toward solving our problems and ensure that huge untapped resource of talented young motorcyclists in the county keen to get proficient in the sport and turn out in League Speedway for the Kent Kings can be realised”.