So🐭merset Rebel speedway star, Simon Walker, is looking forward to the 2007 season and the fresh chall🌳enge it will pose for him.

A relatively late starter to the world of speedway, and having spent his Premier League career riding in one of the two reser🗹ve berths for the Rebels, the new season will see Walker riding in the main body ꦿof the team for the first time, but the 26 year old is more than ready for the challenges this will bring.

"Of course it will be more difficult riding in the main body of the team," agreed the Badminton based Walker, "and even more so as it looks like I will be riding in the number 2 position in th🦩e team, but I feel that the time is right for me to make that step up from reserve."

"When I look around at the other teams in the Premier League, a lot of them are using a rider who rode at reserve in 2006 iဣn the main body of the team this year, and as I've beaten most of them around the Oak Tree Aren🌸a, I don't think I've got much to fear on that front."

"Obviously away from home will be a different proposition, and it is🏅 here that I need to step up my game, but I am sure I can do it."

"Having 'ꦗZorro' [Magnus Zetterstrom] as my partner in three out of my four races could been seen as an advantage for me, but people have to remember that he will have the o🧔pposition heat leader to contend with in those races, so he may not be in a position to look out for me!"

With the step u🐻p in cl✅ass comes the need for Walker to ensure his machinery is in tip-top condition, and this is something he has been concentrating on during the winter break.

"I have bought a new engine as well as replacing just about everything else in the last couple of months." "Buying new equipment does not come cheap, but that it the price a rider has to pay in ♏order to improve and I am sure that I am not alone in this respect."

"Sponsorship is vital for a rider and I have, hopefully, a new sponsor who is willing to help out for the new sea𝔉son, but should other potential sponsors like to come forward to as💝sist then I would be more than grateful."