RACING makes a long-awaited return to the Southern 500 Speedway this weekend with the Heathmere track roaring back into action with its first meet since February 2020.

The Southern 500 Speedway has been one of the hardest hit local sports clubs by the coronavirus pandemic, with the second half of the 2019-20 schedule, all of the 2020-21 schedule and the first half of this season lost.