For the 11th time in their history Coventry will host a round in the World Championship Grand Prix series. A predictable choice for the DLSA when they selected the 22,350 capacity Diamond Park to stage the British round in SL37, Timperley were also nodded through as European Grand Prix hosts. Their Park Road Stadium— which with a capacity of 18,100 is the fourth biggest in the country—graces the series for a fourth time, all over just an eight year period. Along with last years hosts—York and Beverley—the biggest four purpose built venues in the UK have shared the hosting of the last 15 GP meetings to have taking place in this country. York get the Overseas Final in SL37, Beverley the WU21 Final. Other big winners on the allocation list include Blackpool (GP Play Off), York (Overseas Final), Witham (British Final), St Ives (WU19 Final) and Warley (Division One Riders Championship). We go to Bury for the Pairs Final during the second month of the campaign, where holders Rhondda will be hoping to successfully defend the first major piece of club silverware up for grabs in SL37. On the track top flight quartet Brighton, Houston, Blackpool and Coventry all made it five wins out of six in pre-season with back-to-back victories in the final warm-ups, of them it’s Houston who have been made favourites to claim league success this season, they predicted to wrestle the title back from last years winners Coventry. Second tier Warley also completed the preliminaries with an identical record. Meanwhile Pelham reserve Louis Leigh (14) won the BU19 title in this years final at Coventry, the top seven from the meeting qualify to ride in the WU19 championship.