TED Collins wants to get as much lap practice in as he can before the Australian Superbike Championship re-starts next month.
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The Warrnambool-based racer, who competes in the supersport 600 class, spent Monday practicing at Winton Raceway.
It comes after confirmation competition would resume at Phillip Island on July 25-26 after a five-month break due to COVID-19.
Collins competed in round one at the same venue before the season was thrown into disarray.
Organisers have since planned for a five-round series. Winton will host round three from September 11-13 and Wakefield round four from October 16-18.
Round five is still in the planning stages.
Collins said it was pleasing the season would re-start but admitted financial restraints might force him to hand-pick which rounds he contests.
He will compete in round two at Phillip Island.
"I am excited. To go racing would be really good, that's what we want," Collins said.
"If there's a second spike (in coronavirus cases) we're just waiting to make sure that doesn't affect us.
"It's still a bit of an unknown."
Collins raced at Phillip Island in round one and is familiar with the circuit.
"Victoria in July, the weather might be a bit iffy but it's been so long I think everyone is just hanging to go riding and racing again," he said.
Collins, who is part of a family-run team, said they "wanted to race as much as we can".
"It's just a matter of if we can get the budget together," he said.
"At the moment we're looking at doing the first few rounds and then re-assessing, to make sure it's viable to do the rest of the year."
Long-term success is JC Motorsports' main aim.
"This year has been quite hard so we're going to more focus on being ready for next year and hopefully have more of a normal season," Collins said.
"Because we're still coming back and building ourselves back up again after having a hard year last year (with injuries) it's probably not the end of the world if we missed a round or two."
Collins' girlfriend Tayla, a fellow racer, helped as a mechanic during his Winton practice run on Monday.
He wanted the weather to clear to allow for better laps.
"The weather is not great again...but it's just really good to get out on the bike and get back to some normality," he told The Standard after his first run.
"I've done one session in the wet but obviously that's not ideal practice."
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