Chris Walker is se𝄹t to make a sen🧸sational move into the Hyundai Heavy Industries British Sidecar Championship for 2016.

The BSB favourite and multiple race-winner will make his debut in the championship at Oulꦐton Park in May for experienced squad Santander Salt Kawasaki and is relishing the opportunity of a fresh challenge having competed in the Superbike class since 1995.

"The BSB paddock feels like my hoꦆme and so I am really excited by this completely new challenge, especially as the British Sidecar Championship is going from strength to strength," Walker said. "I have no knowledge of it so I am full of anticipation, although I have to say it is still a bit daunting.

"I guess the last time I had that kind of feeling of the🍰 complete unknown was my first Superbike race in 1995; Hizzy was out injured and I got called up to replace him. I was up against the big hitters of BSB and the night before I was like a six year-old at Christmas."

Walker says he still harboured aspirations of staying in the MCE British Superbike championship in 2016 but after his former team Be Wiser K﷽awasaki folded and a♊ll options of a Kawasaki ride dried up elsewhere, the veteran says it was the right time for a fresh challenge.

"There is so muc♛h bright talent emerging in BSB right now andಞ I have looked at the larger picture; I am a racer through and through, I always will be," he explained. "This is a time for some of the young riders to get their chances whilst in my mid 40s I can still go racing and still get that feeling of a challenge, which is an amazing thing to be able to say."

Despite his excitement Walker ꧑is well aware of the daunting prospect of c🌃onverting from two-wheels to three but is confident he can learn quickly from the team around him.

"I really don't know what to൲ expect and that is what I think excites me the most," he added. "The sidecar 🍃is completely different to a Superbike in terms of the gearing and braking so I am sure that will be something for me to get my head around, but the biggest draw for me is the new challenge.

"ꦑI have the security of some great team-m🦄ates and good people around me who I can learn from. With a Superbike I had ridden a bike since the age of three; I have only had a go in a sidecar once and that was in 1986 and a completely different animal."