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Reigning Australian Off-Road Champion Daniel Milner will reignite his 2014 AORC championship campaign when the series resumes next weekend at Coonawarra in South Australia.

Milner currently lies in sixth position in the Outright championship title fight despite missing rounds five and six at Corner Inlet with a fractured ankle, but has recently returned to riding aboard his CDR Yamaha YZ450F.

Just yesterday Milner was given the all-clear from Suzuki RACESAFE to gear up and go again.

“I’m stoked to be back on the bike again,” Milner told MotoOnline.com.au. “After seven and a half weeks off the bike I was a little bit sketchy, but it was more a bit of in the head kind of stuff. I was just worried about dabbing the foot, but now as I have done a bit of freeriding I feel I am getting more confident and getting back to how I was.”

Milner is anticipating a challenging weekend in SA at the seventh and eighth rounds, which will be made up of dual Sprint events. Still, he’s not altogether ruling out his chances of victory.

“My fitness is definitely not where it was before I had the accident, that’s for sure,” he added. “It will hard next weekend as it’s a double Sprint round and also how deep the sand is over there at Coonawarra. But it should be good fun!

“Of course I’m always going there for the win. My fitness might not be where it wants to be, but my mind is definitely still where it is. So I’ll go there still knowing that I can push the boys at the top. I want to win – that’s all I want to do is win.”

In 2013 Milner won both rounds at Coonawarra to set him up nicely for the back-end of the season, when he went on to clinch his first Outright championship.