Already confirmed to ride in the FIM World Endurance championship with the Honda TT Legends team, Lincolnshire ace Steve Plater is all set to contest the 2011 British Supersport championship with Padgett’s Honda. Steve is pleased to announce that UK Waste Solutions have come on board as a personal sponsor this season. UK Waste Solutions are a leading service-led independent provider of solutions for recycling & waste management based in Newark, Nottinghamshire who offer national coverage delivered with a professional but friendly attitude to meet their customers’ needs and to save them money. The company had a small involvement with racing in 2010 by helping Sam Warren and this year have decided to become more involved thus gaining valuable brand exposure with TV coverage and media publications. Plater who won the British Supersport title for HM Plant Honda in 2009, is to join the Batley based Padgett’s Honda team and will contest all but one of the British Supersport rounds in an effort to bring back the title to Honda and Lincolnshire for a third successive year. (Plater relinquished his crown in 2010 to fellow county Honda rider Sam Lowes.) He will miss the Silverstone round in September as it clashes with the Le Mans 24-hour race in France. The Woodhall Spa star is due to take part in some pre-season testing in the UK prior to a full test programme in March to prepare for the World Endurance championship. He said: “The two different classes are perfect for me. I have raced for Clive Padgett before and I am really looking forward to the new season and working with the team again. With all the rule changes in the British Supersport class its going to be completely different to 2009. We have two races now instead of one, the first being a short race which will carry full championship points with the fastest lap in that race setting the grid positions for the main race the next day. That’s more or less the same format as the British Superbike championship and I am keen to get back to winning ways and to have a stab at giving Honda a hat trick of wins.” Plater will test at Darley Moor and Donington shortly before heading off to Albacete and Magny Cours to test with the TT Legends team. The first round of the World Endurance championship is at Magny Cours on 16/17 April when the team will contest the 24-hour Bol d’Or. Then it’s straight back to the UK for round one of the British Supersport championship at Brands Hatch over the Easter break of April 22-25.