Multiple British Supermoto Champion Christian Iddon will make the leap from World Supersport to the new Evo World Superbike class after signing to ride for Alstare's new Bimota team.

Iddon will partner Ayrton Badovini in the squad which is a spin-off from the new, longterm partnership which Alstare and Bimota have entered into. Iddon's father Paul rode a YB3 in the opening years of WSBK, so he is keeping up a family tradition.

“This is an amazing opportunity for me and I am very excited about the challenge ahead. Alstare is a famous team, with a big history and I am sure that I am going to learn a lot from them," said Iddon.

"They have loads of experience and that is going to help me, in what is going to be a very interesting season. I have ridden a Superbike before, four rounds in the British Superbike Championship, but I know the new Bimota BB3 is going to be very different to what I am used to. Although we are starting from scratch, as long as we can find a good base setting we can progress quickly.

"I think many teams in this year’s championship are new and probably have not done much testing, so we’re going to be in the same boat as them. I don’t like to talk about targets, but I always set high goals for myself and this year will be no exception. I would like to think we’d be challenging the top guys in the EVO class well before the latter part of the season and I’d be disappointed if we weren’t.

"I know I’ve got a great team behind me and I am looking forward to working with them and maybe surprising

a few people.”