After two away victories at Edinburgh and Berwick with a double for the bonus point against the latter Borders side - the Redcar Bears face the Monarchs from the Scottish capital on Thursday evening at 7.30pm looking for another double and a further bonus point that would secure their position at the top of the Premier Trophy North section.

However, Edinburgh's highly experienced new number one Ronnie 'The Rocket' Correy had an advance opportunity to test the South Tees Motorpark circuit last Thursday when a Monarchs Select were one of the teams competing in Kevin Little's farewell meeting. As did William Lawson and Derek Sneddon - two of the Scottish septet's rising young stars.

Ronnie enters Premier League racing with a marvellous pedigree.He was a World Finalist four years in succession 1989 to 1992 and it was in 1992 that he won the World Pairs Championship for the USA riding with Greg Hancock. He joins Edinburgh from Wolverhampton for whom he made his debut 20 years ago. His clashes with former World Champion Gary Havelock, the Redcar skipper, should be worth the price of admission alone and they produced some classic racing at the Armadale Stadium in the first leg.

The team that eventually finishes top of this regional section will go in the hat for semi-final places against the Midland and Southern section winners plus the best performing second place nationally but no chickens are being counted by Bears team manager Brian Havelock. 'We are not complacent about this impending fixture as no doubt having a series of races on our track only seven days prior will benefit the Monarchs involved. Also we yet to face Glasgow and Newcastle in the Northern group so there is still a lot of work to be done.' REDCAR BEARS: 1. Gary Havelock (C) 2. Daniel Giffard 3. James Grieves 4. Chris Kerr 5. Mathieu Tresarrieu 6. Jamie Courtney (R) 7. Rusty Hodgson (R) Team Manager: Brian Havelock EDINBURGH MONARCHS: 1. Ronnie Correy (C) 2. Henrik Moller 3.William Lawson 4. Daniele Tessari 5. Matthew Wethers 6. Derek Sneddon (R) 7. Andrew Tully (R) Team Manager: Alan Bridgett