Chri🐭s Walker is set to make a sensational move into the Hyundaiဣ Heavy Industries British Sidecar Championship for 2016.

The BSB favo🅷urite and multiple race-winner will make his d🌳ebut in the championship at Oulton 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 home and so I am really excited by this completely new challenge, especially as t📖he 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 rac🔥e 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 Christma🧸s."

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

"There is so much bright talent emerging in BSB right now and 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 𒀰of 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 𒆙thing to be able to say."

Despite his excitement Walker is well aware of the daunting prospect of converting from two-wheels to three but is confident he can lꩵea🅘rn quickly from the team around him.

"I really don't know what to expect and that is what I think excites me the most," he added. "The sidecar is complete🌃ly 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.

"I have the security of some gr𓆏eat team-mates 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."