Dan Kneen has been steadily getting up to speed on his return to the Macau Grand Prix this week as he builds up to tomorrows twelve lap race. After working on stability issues between qualifying sessions one and two the Manx man improved his lap time by almost three seconds to qualify 11th, just behind previous winner Ian Hutchinson.

With one more warm up session still to come Kneen is confident he can make further improvements to work his way up the leader board and finish the 2016 season on a high for Mar-Train and Yamaha UK.

Dan Kneen

“That was a lot better today, the bike was turning a lot better in sector two and I was able to hit apexes I couldn’t in Q1. Andy, Scott and Connor or doing a mega job improving the bike, we started with no data obviously as it is a new bike and the team haven’t been here before so we are now going in the right direction. We can make another few changes for warm up and hopefully I can get away with the lead pack and see where we end up, the pace of the top ten guys is phenomenal so it is going to be a tough race!”

The race will be shown live on BT Sport 3 at 07:45 GMT 19th November.