The Swan Yamaha team were back on track today (Wednesday) for the second day of testing at the Calafat circuit in Spain as Tommy Hill and Michael Laverty continued to improve their pace after an impressive start to their 2011 campaign. The Swan Yamaha team made a promising start to their test yesterday with an initial shakedown of the new Yamahas and today both Hill and Laverty was equally impressed by the progress the team has already made so early into the team’s test schedule. Both riders return to the circuit tomorrow for a final day on circuit before moving on to Cartagena where they will share the track with some of their main title rivals. Hill said: “Today was another massive step forward for the team. I moved into the 1m:23s lap times and for a new bike, a new track and a new team we are all very happy and working closely together. We have had several rider and team briefings and that means we are all progressing together, so we feel like we are doing a good job. We are all competitive and obviously want to keep improving but we need to keep remembering to pinch ourselves and remember that it is still early days.” Laverty added: “It was another good day today and we continued to make some really encouraging progress with the Swan Yamaha. We turned on the traction control for the first time today and made some chassis changes before completing a race run and we were able to run the lap times consistently, so we are all feeling really positive. We have taken some massive steps forward today and we now look forward to more of the same tomorrow. I feel we are ahead of where I expected us to be so now we just need to continue finding some more speed in the morning and then we will be ready to head to Cartagena.”