LEICESTER Speedway would like to wish Richard Lawson well for the 2025 season after his move to King’s Lynn was confirmed.
Lawson has spent the last two years with the Watling JCB Lions but has now elected to rejoin the Stars, who he had ridden for in 2021 and 2022 and who called him up as a guest on several occasions this year.
Lions manager Stewart Dickson says Lawson had figured in various possible permutations for next season, but the news came well before any plans were finalised.
The Leicester team which finished the 2024 campaign was over two points above next year’s points limit of 40, so bringing back exactly the same top five would have been an impossibility in any case.
Dickson said: “We were talking about next year with Richard, but then he got another offer which he wanted to pursue, and after a couple of texts and chats back and forth, we didn’t stand in his way.
“I think it then reached the point that he wanted to go back to King’s Lynn, he wanted the move, and we always knew that we were going to have to lose at least one rider from our top five.
“We wish him well, and clearly he’s on that sort of average where if we need a guest and he’s available he would certainly be someone we would look to use.
“There’s no fall-out between us. He’s done a couple of years with Leicester and he’s helped establish us as a decent Premiership side, so he goes to King’s Lynn with our blessing and I’m sure he’ll do a sterling job for them.”
Lions are now finalising their own team plans following the completion of the AGM this week, and further news is expected in the near future.
