Joe Mellor says Super League leaders Widnes will be out to make a statement on Thursday as they seek a first away win over Wigan for 11 years. The 25-year-old Mellor has been in sensational form along with his half-back partner Kevin Brown as the Vikings have equalled their best ever start to a Super League campaign.In the bottom four at the end of 2015 and tipped for another battle against relegation, the Vikings have silenced their critics by winning five of their opening six matches and boast the best attack in Super League as well as the leading try-scorer in Corey Thompson. But Mellor knows they face an acid test of their title aspirations against the Warriors, who are one of only two clubs with 100 per cent records so far this year and, fresh from a demolition of defending champions Leeds, have the chance to take over top spot.I think a lot of people are surprised because of the way we performed last year and where we ended up in the league, but we had a really good pre-season and obviously took that into the season, said Mellor.Nobody is getting carried away because we know it could change, were just looking to turn up each week and perform the best we can. Barrie McDermott says hes been impressed with the Vikings performances this season Warrington-born Mellor, one of 16 Wigan academy products in the two squads for Thursdays game at the DW Stadium, is playing the best rugby of his career since joining Widnes.He made two Super League appearances for the Warriors in 2012 before being sidelined for nine months with a knee injury and went on to rebuild his career under Denis Betts, another former Wigan player.Im not bitter about anything, he said. Wigan have got a really good youth set-up and I enjoyed my time there and learned a lot.Denis gave me my opportunity and [Stefan] Marsh went on dual [registration] to Widnes as well the year before me. Widnes were emphatic 46-6 victors over Hull FC last Thursday Its a good pathway for us to get some game time but now I think well be able to attract some really good players to Widnes. Were up there and competing with the likes of Wigan these days.We do really want to go out and make a statement this week. I think last week was our biggest test of the season against Hull FC and this is going to be massive.While the Vikings are averaging 35 points a game, Wigan have the meanest defence having leaked just 66 points in five games.They are unbeaten against Super League opposition at the DW Stadium since June 2014 - not that coach Shaun Wane is taking his sides impressive home record for granted. Stefan Marsh, Corey Thompson, Denis Betts and Joe Mellor look ahead to Thursdays trip to Wigan Every club that comes to the DW poses a threat to it, Wane said. I dont get carried away with the fortress comments.We need to turn up mentally and be ready to defend our line like our life depends on it. We did that last week. Unfortunately we couldnt see the game out by nilling Leeds [winning 28-6] but well have to have the same attitude against Widnes. Wigan ran out 28-6 winners in their Grand Final rematch with Leeds Theyre playing really well. Theyre scoring some points and really attacking teams.They have an advantage with their home pitch but theyre also playing well away. The attacking shapes theyre showing with Joe Mellor, Kev Brown and Rhys Hanbury out the back are outstanding.Theyve done things to Leeds and Hull that we couldnt do. We beat them both but they werent convincing wins and Widnes have absolutely pumped both teams [56-12 and 46-6 respectively]. Wigan will give a late fitness test to George Williams Widnes are set to switch Chris Dean from the second row to centre to plug the gap caused by the loss of Chris Bridge with a neck injury, while Setaimata Sa and Gil Dudson are both pushing for recalls.Wigan will give late fitness tests to stand-off George Williams, who pulled out of last weeks win over Leeds with a back problem, and second rower Liam Farrell, who is nursing a shoulder injury.Second rower Nick Gregson keeps his place in the squad after making his debut against the Rhinos and Wane may give a debut to prop Joe Bretherton if Farrell is ruled out.Wigan Warriors: John Bateman, Joe Bretherton, Gregg Burke, Josh Charnley, Tony Clubb, Liam Farrell, Ben Flower, Anthony Gelling, Oliver Gildart, Nick Gregson, Dom Manfredi, Lee Mossop, Sean OLoughlin, Sam Powell, Dan Sarginson, Matty Smith, Ryan Sutton, Taulima Tautai, George Williams.Widnes Vikings: Kevin Brown, Hep Cahill, Chris Dean, Gil Dudson, Alex Gerrard, Tom Gilmore, Rhys Hanbury, Aaron Heremaia, Chris Houston, Macgraff Leuluai, Manase Manuokafoa, Stefan Marsh, Joe Mellor, Eamon OCarroll, Charly Runciman, Setaimata Sa, Corey Thompson, Lloyd White, Matt Whitley.Watch Wigan v Widnes live on Sky Sports 2 HD on Thursday from 7.30pm. 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The Halo has only run on four occasions, twice in pre-season testing with the original prototype on the Ferrari, once with an updated prototype in first practice at the British Grand Prix and once on the Red Bull during an in-season test at Silverstone.Whiting says the lack of driver feedback could lead to unintended consequences if Halo was rushed through for 2017 and is instead hoping for all drivers to test it before the end of the season in order to better understand how it impacts on a drivers vision.The FIA has decided that the Halo is the future, as has been stated in the past, Whiting said. The first step was yesterday to take it to the Strategy Group, so that is exactly what we did.The decision was taken, as I believe you know, that simply because only three drivers have ever tried it, and they have only done a total of four laps, this was something that everyone felt was quite a relevant thing and it wouldnt really be feasible in the short term to get the relevant number of laps with the Halo. That was the reason for introducing if for 2018 instead of 2017.When asked why the FIA had not conducted tests earlier, Whiting said: This is something that we had to leave to the teams because we couldnt at that point feel as though we could actually insist upon trying to put it on one of the current cars.But there are also problems, if you talk to anybody from Red Bull for example they say they cant run Halo for more than two laps before the air intakes for the cooling of the engine and cooling of the gearbox start to be affected. What we are looking to do is make it clear that every driver has to try it for a whole free practice session during the course of this year.That would give us a proper way of going forward so we ddont get caught out by something that is very hard to change back.dddddddddddd Thats really the idea.Whiting said the FIA is still keen to pursue Halo over Red Bulls Aeroscreen alternative for 2018, but said the key concern is currently visibility.At the moment its Halo but there will be some form of additional frontal protection. If, for example, the Aeroscreen can be redesigned to fit the free head volume - which is one of the stumbling blocks at the moment - that might be the way to go. But I think we need to look at visibility first because that is the thing that is a little bit of an unknown, so we really do need to make sure that is not a sort of showstopper. But it really would be similar between the Halo and the Aeroscreen, I would imagine.One concern raised by critics of Halo is how it would impact driver extrication if a car rolls and catches fire, but Whiting said that had been considered and was not the biggest factor behind Halo not going ahead for 2017.Were not neglecting it, it has been thought of. Now, for example, if a car turned over and was on fire I think its quite unlikely ... if it has been in an accident big enough to cause a fire then the driver probably cant get out by himself anyway.Then the first course of action will be for marshals to get there and turn the car over and this is the sort of thing you see quite regularly. So I have always felt that a car being upside down is always a worry but the marshals are normally there pretty quickly and they would turn it back over. Thats the way weve always felt about that particular scenario.And Whiting confirmed the aesthetic appeal of the design had not been a barrier to Halo being introduced.The reason they deferred the Halo is purely because the drivers havent had a good chance to assess what they can see out of the car with it on - thats fundamentally it. I know that some people have said they dont like the look of it, but its never come across as being the reason for not having Halo, which is I think what you were asking. ' ' '