VETERAN motor cyclist Jim Curry will take on young pretender Simon Andrews in a specially arranged race at Mallory Park.

The unique challenge has been organised by the Wickhamford teenager's Team UCL Racing set up but the event will see the pair swapping bikes.

Andrews will be at the helm of Curry's classic 350 Drixton Aermacchi, a superbike of its day, while the 59-year-old former British 125 champion will get the chance to take to the circuit on a fuel-injected CBR600.

While Curry has raced alongside some of the sports great names - Mike Hailwood and Phil Read - to name just two - since his first race at Castle Combe in 1960, Andrews is trying to make a name for himself in the British Supersport Series.

Curry got back on two wheels only last year when he qualified for the Manx 350 Classic Grand Prix after hitting the comeback trail to raise funds for the Oncology Unit at Chel-tenham General Hospital, where he was diagnosed with cancer of the lymph glands in 1984.

He managed to raise in the region of £5,000, well in excess of his initial target of £2,000, and his next target is to pip one of the track's brightest hopes to the finish line in what promises to be an interesting test at the Leicestershire circuit.