Following the recent signing of Frank Smart, Newport have moved to retai🍷n Craig Watson for 2003 when the﷽ popular Australian duo will again spearhead the Wasp's campaign.

Watson has spent most of his British speedway career with the South Wales club apart from an ill-fated dally with Poole in the Elite League a couple of seasons ago which was blighted bꦬy injury and poor form.

But a return to Newport last season proved a welcome tonic and saw Watson return to impres🌜sive form. He topped the Newport averages and represented his employ🧸ers with credit in the Premier League Riders' Championship at Belle Vue.

Watson apparently still holds ambitions of another crack at Elite League racing and another successful season with the♊ Wasps could set him on the way to that perhaps in 2004.