STOKE asset Barrie Evans has hinted he would like another crack at Premier League racing if his 2010 season with National League outfit Mildenhall goes well.

Evans, aged 25, spent four seasons with Stoke before rejoining debut club Mildenhall in 2008.

However, the 2003 Conference League Riders champion is keen to prove himself at a higher level again.

He said: "I am very confident about the coming season and, if I achieve the sort of standards I feel capable of, I might well turn my attention to racing in the Premier League again.

"The National League is not an easy option, but unless I can run a near 10-point average in this league there is no way I would score enough points at a higher level to make it pay or hold down a team place.

"I've invested in more equipment over the winter and I am pleased enough to be going back to Mildenhall.

"It won't be easy to run a nine or 10-point average, but I have to aim for it. And if I can pull that off, I just might look to move up again next season."

Meanwhile, Stoke co-promoter and team manager John Woolridge is hoping club assets Gareth Isherwood and Buzz Burrows find a team for the 2010 season.

"As club assets, it is in everyone's interests they find team places and I am doing all I can to help them," he said.

"Both are at different ends of their careers, but both are worthy of a team place."

Burrows had a spell with the Potters last year before switching to Weymouth in the National League.

However, he is unsure whether he will race at all this year.

"I still have that competitive edge to my racing, and I could handle either the Premier or National League if we were on a level playing field," he said.

"But I can't justify the cost of racing in the Premier, and even the National League is full of riders on top-class equipment these days.

"I'm certainly not pushing for rides this season and no one has approached me either, so maybe that's it.

"The sport is full of stories of riders who are here one minute, gone the next. It could well be that my time has come."