GLASGOW No 1 Richie Worrall has revealed how booking his place in the Tigers’ 2017 side is his top target this winter.
The Englishman says he loves working under manager Stewart Dickson and wants to start talks on a possible return to the Peugeot Ashfield Stadium as soon as speedway bosses have held their annual AGM in the coming days.
Worrall has enjoyed a terrific first season with Glasgow, climbing from fourth in the start-of-season averages to cement his place at the head of the side thanks to a series of consistent performances home and away.
And asked if he would make a second campaign of racing for the Tigers a priority, he said: “Definitely – I’ll sit down and have a chat with Stewart. They’re having the BSPA AGM in a couple of weeks’ time and provided nothing daft happens I want to be back.
“It’s a track I enjoy riding and the atmosphere is brilliant every single week – the fans are mental. It’s just brilliant to come here.
“It’s a great, successful club run by successful people and Stewart is a massive attraction for me. The passion that bloke puts into his club and to his team is fantastic.
“I put a lot of work in behind the scenes – and it’s nice to see that passion back from Stewart. He’s got a big heart for Glasgow speedway and he’s even said himself he wouldn’t do it for any other club.
“When I see on social media people saying get rid of Stewart, it puzzles me, because they don’t know the bloke like I do.”
Worrall managed to turn around a poor couple of meetings against Somerset in the League Cup final to help Glasgow secure the KO Cup on Monday night against Newcastle.
Much of the build-up to that tie had focused on Richie’s battle with twin Steve, who rides for the Diamonds, and he was pleased to get the edge over his brother.
The duo even had a coming-together at Edinburgh on Friday night as Steve guested for the Monarchs against the Tigers, with Richie’s sibling ending up in the fence.
He said: “There was a big build-up between me and him, and with what went on on Friday as well. He always seems to make an excuse when I beat him, so I said to him, ‘you better have your excuses ready this weekend, because you’re going to get beat quite a lot by me’.
“We’ve not really spoken after that at Edinburgh and it’s a bit of a shame – I have respect for him on the track and I wouldn’t deliberately knock him off. I would just be hard on him like I would any other rider, just because he’s my brother I’m not going to soften up on him.”