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Speedway: New dressing rooms for Panthers riders
Panthers will be getting dressed for success this year - literally.
Panthers will be getting dressed for success this year - literally.The club have taken delivery of new dressing rooms which will be added to the pits area at the Showground for the first time. The units have been winched into place behind the part of the pits traditionally occupied by visiting riders.
In recent years riders have become accustomed to changing in the back of their vans but that will now be a thing of the past.
City-based number one Niels-Kristian Iversen has already given the new facilities a once-over and liked what he saw.
Iversen and the rest of the club's new-look team had put them at the top of a wish-list for winter improvements.
Iversen said: "It's going to be a real help in getting the right team spirit among everyone.
"You can have a joke and a laugh before and after the meeting when you all change together.
"That hasn't happened in the past because most of us got changed in the vans rather than walk a quarter of a mile or whatever it was to the facilities on the Showground.
"We had a team meeting in December and for everyone this was the number one priority for the new season."
In the past permission had regularly been refused to either build or bring in tailor-made buildings, but current East of England Agricultural Society Chief Executive Andrew Mercer agreed to the proposals during a winter meeting with the club's board.
A race-night office and a block of toilets are also being introduced this year.
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