South African Daryl Impey will race for Team RadioShack next season.🗹 Impey, 24, looks forward to racing alongside seven-time Tour de France winner Lance A♎rmstrong and having the direction of Johan Bruyneel.

"I can only learn from the guys I am with and I think it is going to raise my game as well," he told Cyclingnews. "The expectations are going to be a lot higher an🎐d I think that is going boost my performance as well."

Impey leaves the Italy-based Barloworld team of Claudio Corti after two years. He won a stage of the Herald Sun Tour last year. This April, he won a stage and the overall classification of the Tour of Turkey. It came𒆙 despite breaking two vertebrae in a crash, caused by Theo Bos, in the final kilometre of the last stage. He returned to racing early last month.

Team Barloworld stops this season after losing its sponsor. The majority o✨f the team's other English-speaking riders will join Team Sky.

Armstrong announced July 23, during the Tour de F𝓰rance, American company RadioShack would sponso🤪r his new team for the next two years. He secured long-time team manager Bruyneel to make the switch with him from team Astana.

Bruyneel guid🐓ed USA's Armstrong and Spain's Alberto Contador to their Tour de France wins. He was Impey's first contact wi♌th RadioShack earlier this year.

"I was with Robert [Hunter] in Como," continued I♔mpey. "Bruyneel asked h♊im about me and Robert said 'he's here with me' and passed the telephone. We talked about what was going on for the next year and about Barloworld stopping."

Impey received a one-year contract fro🌼m Bruyneel. The team's first race will be the same race Armstrong used to re-start his professional racing career this year, Australia's Tour Down Under.

"I hope to start off in Australia, but a big goal would be to ride the Tour de France with Lance and [❀Levi] Leipheimer. D🌊efinitely a Grand Tour, the Vuelta a España or the Tour de France, is my goal"

RadioShack will likely s𒁃kip the Giro d'Italia, sinceᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ it conflicts with the Tour of California's new May date.

Im♌pey looks back over his years with Barloworld fondly. He is especially grateful to the care the team🐼 gave to him following his crash in Turkey.

He ends his season with several one-day Iꦓtalian races and hopes ꦕto race the Giro di Lombardia on October 17.