TONIGHT we’re hopefully going to get our season going again at Leicester, which is one of the most unique circuits on the calendar in Britain.

It’s a very narrow track and opportunities to pass are quite tough, so it’s really important to gate well there and make a good start.

I haven’t raced there since 2011, so it will be a unfamiliar territory for me and I don’t know how I am going to go.

It’s important to start well but that’s the case with every track and it’s one thing I feel I have been doing quite well in the last few years, so hopefully I can carry that on.

Starts are something you are always practicing and perfecting. You see people doing practice starts before every meet and even at every race as well.

You are always trying to do something that will make you improve. You never stop trying to perfect it.

Starts are one of the most important things in speedway but they’re the easiest thing to get confused with.

I don’t think I have too many problems with that but a lot of other riders do. People tend to overthink it and sometimes, you can make it worse.

The first thing people do is change their clutch set-up but I think that’s a mistake. You have a blueprint that you have set up and you don’t really want to alter that too much if you can help it.

In the last home meeting at Swindon, I didn’t make any starts and I was struggling, but I still had everything set up the same as I normally do. I guess it was just something with me that wasn’t clicking quite right and sometimes, you get meetings like that.

Although you are thinking a lot about the start, you still have to race and although opportunities to pass are difficult, the good riders are still able to make opportunities by putting pressure on the other riders.

When the pressure is on, that’s when people make mistakes and the opportunities to pass come. If there’s no pressure, then it’s pretty straightforward for the guy in front to hold on for the win.

It’s very important to make good starts as you have only got 60 seconds of racing but you have still got time to make up for it, even if you don’t gate well, and that’s what the very best riders do.