SCUNTHORPE SCORPIONS have revealed their complete line-up for the 2025 season in the Cab Direct Championship.<\/p>\n
In addition to the already announced Luke Harrison, three other Scorpions will return from 2024 \u2013 skipper Simon Lambert, Jake Allen and Connor Mountain.<\/p>\n
Steve Worrall returns for a third stint with Scorpions \u2013 the club where he started his career \u2013 and will commence the season in the No 1 position.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the two reserve berths will be filled by the two Australian Kennedy brothers, Zaine and Declan.<\/p>\n
Zaine Kennedy has previously ridden for Scorpions in 2022, but brother Declan is a completely new face to British Speedway.<\/p>\n
Scunthorpe promoter Rob Godfrey said: \u201cI think this team has got a very good balance.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSteve Worrall\u2019s 2024 season with Glasgow came to a halt due to illness, but he\u2019s healthy again. He lives locally in Cleethorpes and our fans will have already spotted him at the Eddie Wright Raceway towards the end of last season. Steve wanted to join a club much closer to home.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThere are one or two riders who have left the league so Stevie moves up into the top positions where theoretically he could score points heavily at every track. It gives us a good platform to start with, which is what we had the year before last with Ryan Douglas.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cZaine always wanted to come back to race for Scunthorpe. We saw what he was capable of last time around in 2022. He was all set to return in 2023, when he had an accident on his mountain bike.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cBut we\u2019ve kept in contact and then we got wind from Zaine that his brother Declan wanted to come over and ride for Scunthorpe as well.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Lambert, Allen and Mountain are all well-known names with the Scunthorpe public. Skipper Lambert will be in his eighth season with the club, Allen in his seventh year, while Mountain returns for a third successive campaign as a Scorpion.<\/p>\n Godfrey added: \u201cAnyone who knows me knows I\u2019m very loyal to people and they all want to come back.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe riders we\u2019ve retained have all been here for a few years, Jake and Simon especially, and it will be Connor Mountain\u2019s third year with us, so we know what to expect from them and they were all keen to stay.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cMichael (Palm Toft) also wanted to come back, but we had to work around the points limit. It was only Kyle (Howarth) who didn\u2019t want to return because he said he wanted a track nearer to home after becoming a new father, so we respected that.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt was impossible, with the points the team increased by last year, to keep everyone. We had to pull it apart and put something together that we believe is stronger throughout, and I believe we\u2019ve done that with the way we\u2019ve gone.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n One of the early home fixtures of the 2025 season will be when Scunthorpe stage the prestigious Championship League Riders\u2019 Championship at the Eddie Wright Raceway on Sunday, April 6 at 3pm.<\/p>\n Words and Image by Scunthorpe Speedway<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SCUNTHORPE SCORPIONS have revealed their complete line-up for the 2025 season in the Cab Direct Championship. In addition to the already announced Luke Harrison, three other Scorpions will return from 2024 \u2013 skipper Simon Lambert, Jake Allen and Connor Mountain. Steve Worrall returns for a third stint with Scorpions \u2013 the club where he started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,51],"tags":[8,100,37,9,70],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-british-speedway","category-speedway","category-the-championship","tag-british-speedway","tag-championship","tag-scunthorpe-scorpions","tag-speedway","tag-the-championship"],"yoast_head":"\n