Pickering average has already adjusted come April to 9.28

And let's hope for the sake of British Speedway that it is a success and drives new investment in the sport over here. It's obvious that 2026 is a year of compromise and survival at Premiership level.  Of course, things should have been done differently and more transparently. Perhaps things have not panned out as expected.  I hope Northampton gets enough support from the existing speedway community to get them to the point of generating sufficient ongoing support.   

Because the Football Club is

So why aren't Leicester Lions called the Foxes ?

They were originally know as the brafield flying foxes, before the name was changed to the brafield badgers.