King’s Lynn will have three riders returning from 2024 and three more incoming for the new Premiership season next spring.

The Stars will welcome back skipper Nicolai Klindt, who missed much of the season due to injury.

The Dane will be joined by fellow countryman Niels-Kristian Iversen, who rolled back the years on so many occasions during 2024 having been a stalwart of the club in the old Elite League days of the 2010s.

Czech Republic charger Jan Kvech, who made a huge impression when he joined the Stars in June, is also back for a full season in the club’s colours.

With youngster Ashton Boughen having already been announced in the Rising Star berth, the Stars have confirmed a return for stalwart British rider Richard Lawson.

The 38-year-old has spent the last two seasons with Leicester but rode for Lynn in 2021-22 and was a regular choice of guest for the Stars this year, where he continued to perform at the highest level.

Further experience comes from the signing of three-time British champion Chris ‘Bomber’ Harris who remains one of the most exciting riders in the sport at the age of 41, and is another who made several stand-in appearances for Lynn in 2024.

Harris joins the club after spending this year with Oxford, but he had previously ridden for the promotion at Peterborough and was part of their title-winning team of 2021.

Fast-improving Australian racer Ben Cook joins from champions Belle Vue and is another rider well known to club bosses after a year at Peterborough in ’23.

The top six comes in at fractionally under the 40-point limit, and a unique feature of the side is that the starting averages of each of those six riders are between 6.00 and 7.00. It means Cook will start the season at number one on 6.99, whilst Harris will be at reserve on 6.06.

The management team of Keith Chapman, Dale Allitt and Rob Lyon said: “As everyone would expect, we did speak to Robert Lambert, and unfortunately his commitments don’t allow for a full British season at the moment.

“We fully understand that. He was world number two this year, he wants to be world champion, and we completely support him in that.

“Once we knew the situation there, we looked at what we could do, and we knew the riders we wanted to bring in.”

They added:  “King’s Lynn fans have been starved of success, we have to go back six or seven years since we had a decent year, and we need to do that again and put pride into the club.

“Hopefully with the team we’ve assembled we can tick those boxes and also provide good racing for home fans and neutrals.”

King’s Lynn 2025: Ben Cook 6.99, Richard Lawson 6.91, Niels-Kristian Iversen 6.83, Nicolai Klindt 6.59, Jan Kvech 6.58, Chris Harris 6.06, Ashton Boughen (RS).