Paul Hurry bids to complete a hat-trick of Brighton Bonanza titles on Sunday.

The former Eastbourne Eagles star heads a 20-plus strong international line-up for the annual indoor spectacular at the Brighton Centre.

England international Hurry is the established king of the mini-track, having lifted the crown twice before and finished runner-up on two more occasions, as well as winning a similar event at Bournemouth. Among his rivals is another Brighton specialist, American Brent Werner, another previous winner, who rode for Eastbourne last season.

Both are likely to figure strongly again, but who will come out of the pack to launch a challenge to the big guns is anybody's guess.

Although the line-up includes vastly experienced campaigners like Malcolm Simmons, Bobby Schwartz and Kelvin Tatum, the emphasis is very much on the new order in speedway.

Martin Dugard, having announced his retirement from the sport, will not be back to defend the title, while a large chunk of the field have never ridden in England, let alone seen the unique Brighton Centre set-up.

Promoter Jon Cook said: "We thought it was time to ring the changes. The fans have got fed up with seeing the same riders racing against each other, and Sunday's line-up is a fantastic mixture.

"In many respects, it's a shop window for some of the best young riders in the world, wanting to impress and earn a contract to ride in this country."

Cook, whose team plans at Eastbourne are still in the melting pot for next season, is especially keen to run the rule over American whizz-kids Ryan Fisher and Eric Carillo and Swedish brothers Daniel and Joonas Davidsson. The majority of the international field, which also includes riders from Poland, Germany and Finland, are coming into the country especially to ride in Brighton at the weekend.

And that is where the fascination will kick in for the 5,000 fans who are expected to pack the arena for the two-part meeting.

Schwartz and fellow Yank Shawn McConnell will defend the pairs title during the afternoon programme, which gets under way at 3.0.

Hurry will be partnered by veteran former world championship runner-up and three-times world pairs champion Simmons. Tatum, Horsham's multi-world long track and grass track champion, will race with British under-21 champion Simon Stead.

And Eastbourne star Joonas Kylmakorpi teams up with Sweden's Magnus Zetterstrom, who brought the house down at last year's meeting.

The other pairings are Werner and Carillo, Billy Janniro and Fisher, Daniel and Joonas Davidsson, Robert Dados and Slammer Drabit (Poland), Artyr Pietryk and Adam Skornicki (Poland) and Pepi Rudolph and Matthias Kroger (Germany).

The evening schedule, starting at 7.30, features the individual championship, with every man for himself, and Zetterstrom arguably one of the riders most likely to challenge the supremacy of Hurry and Werner.

There are 23 races in each session, with the top scorers after 20 heats battling it out in the semi-finals and final.

Either side of the action, a team of volunteers will work round the clock to shift more than 100 tons of shale in and out of the Brighton Centre and build the track for the event.