Trevor Walker has not rested on his laurels after leading his Whitemoor side to a first League Championship last season. Despite completing a competition quadruple in SL29, only Bernd Hoover remains of that highly successful side going into the new season, the current world champion leading a revamped heat leader trio which now includes Daniz Rask and Pavel Brabec. Rask—who finished in the top five of the World Championship twice since his GP series debut in SL26—was looking for a new home after the demise of Newport Pagnell, where he averaged above nine in every one of the three top flight seasons since joining the club for £625,000. He cost the Witches almost three times that in the pre-season blind-auction, Walker identifying the 29 year old Dane as the perfect rider to build on the club’s recent achievements. At £225,000 the fee required to bring in 33 year old Brabec was relatively small in comparison, but the 33 year old Czech could prove to be an astute purchase, with the pressure on a third heat leader role at the Witches arguably less than that of being number one at Bolsover, with whom he earned promotion to the top flight while with while there on loan. 22 year old Jake Salisbury provides the youth in a strong looking top four, his £175,000 purchase more of a gamble for Walker, with his 6.32 GSA having been earned while riding for under-performing Wilmington in division two last season. Amongst the outgoings are Cestmir Sulak, who becomes part of a brand new heat leader trio at relegated Netherton, while 25 year old Skjold Likness has joined last years division two champions Nottingham in a deal worth £600,000.