Quay Garage will be back on track in MCE-BSB this season with the team based in Devon planning to field two riders, the identities of whom are still being kept officially under wraps, using Honda bikes.

“It is looking fairly good – we’ve some meetings coming up but I am confident that we will be out there with a two man team,” said a buoyant team boss Ian Woollacott. “It is all coming together and now it is a case of dotting the I-s and crossing the T-s,” he added.

Interest among riders looking for strong seats in the action is high. “We’re talking to a few riders – I know who my preferred choices are but there are certainly a few in the mix. It is a good feeling that there is respect for the team and that they want to be part of it.”

Woollacott’s team missed last season after modest successes in 2011 during which his team had Tyco as title sponsor and ran Peter Hickman to ninth place in the final standings. Patrick Muff, Tommy Bridewell and Dan Linfoot also raced in the team’s colours.

But now the team has the equipment ready and waiting to go. They had bought the HM Plant bikes used by Ryuichi Kiyonari and Josh Brookes and the Swan bikes of James Ellison and Stuart Easton in readiness for their new campaign.

“The good thing is that we have the bikes ready to go for the 2013 season – they are sitting here in a warm room and we have all of the infrastructure needed to go racing, all of the equipment and staging for the pit garages, the transporters – they have just been mothballed,” added Woollacott.

And, he is delighted that James Buckingham, who won the Superbike Cup with the team back in 2005, is back with them and working on the team’s bikes. “He will be a crew chief for one of the riders.”

Expect confirmation of the riders in the near future as the team based in Braunton complete unfinished business in the series.