NEW ZEALANDER Grant Tregoning and Swede Jonas Andersson will be returning to Newport next season to race for the Wasps.

Tregoning will be promoted from the Hornets National League squad into the senior team following a successful first full season in British Speedway.

The 21-year-old celebrated the news with an 18-point maximum in a Memorial individual meeting back home in Christchurch last weekend.

Twenty-year-old Andersson will start his first full season with the Wasps next March having joined the club after an outstanding performance in the Welsh Open Championship at Queensway Meadows in June.

It is expected that he will start the new campaign next March initially in the reserve berth.

Club boss Steve Mallett said: “Like last close season we will not dilly-dally in announcing our team plans.

“Next year has surely got to see us enjoy better fortunes than this past season and let me assure Wasps fans that we will be tracking a competitive line-up.”

The annual New Year Classic individual meeting will also be revived. It will be staged on Sunday, January 3 at 1pm and attracts fans from all over the country who can enjoy the rare sight of winter speedway.

* Seventeen-year-old Newport Wasp Kyle Newman had 15 screws inserted in his shattered left thigh in a five-hour operation at the Royal Gwent Hospital.

Kyle was injured during last Sunday's Wales Junior Open Championship at Queensway Meadows speedway circuit, breaking his thigh in six places.

Wasps co-manager Laurence Rogers said: “Kyle was in good spirits before being taken to the theatre and was already planning a recuperative trip to Australia, even though he obviously will not be able to ride there during our close season as originally planned.”