The match was at Belle Vue and it was a bit of an odd one as my King's Lynn team had only two true team riders in Niklas Klingberg and me!

The reason was we were decimated by injuries and then a rearranged Great Britain v Denmark Test match was put on at Wolverhampton that same night, which robbed us of Danes Nicki Pedersen and Tom Madsen!

We had to bring in guest riders like Andreas Jonsson, Gary Stead and Andrew Appleton.

Even so, we only went down by two points 46-44.

I won my first five races and then got a third before Jimmy Nilsen beat me in a run off for the bonus point, which was a bit of a blow.

The run off was called for as we'd won by the same score at Lynn against the Aces last week. Unfortunately the Lynn visit to Eastbourne on Saturday was called off because of bad weather.

It was off to Sweden once again for a Tuesday league match when my club Vargarna beat Team Svelux by over 25 points in the end.

I got 14 points and was pleased with my form and the way the bikes performed, only being beaten once by the world champion, Mark Loram in my second race.

It was onto Poland on Thursday this week, instead of Sunday, because the Overseas world championship meeting was held that day at Poole.

Riding for Gorzow against Wroclaw I got 13 points from my first five races, but I fell off when I was leading my last race.

I caught a hole in the track just in the wrong place, pulled a big wheelie and had to get off in a hurry before I went any wider!

It was a bit disappointing because we'd already been beaten by Wroclaw before that last race. They are a form team at the moment, riding high in the league, whereas unfortunately a couple of guys in my team are not riding so well just at the moment.

This week it's back to a full schedule of racing, Sweden Tuesday, King's Lynn Wednesday against Coventry, which is a Sky Sports televised meeting, Ipswich Thursday, Peterborough Friday and Poland Sunday.

MMY runner-up place in the British Grand Prix, held in the magnificent Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on Saturday, in front of a 40,000 crowd, now gives me something to build on for the rest of the season's four Grands Prix.

It's brought me right back into contention into fourth place in the world championship on 25 points, behind leader Tomasz Gollob, Tony Rickardsson and Todd Wiltshire.

Now I just have to hope that Gollob and Rickardsson get a bad Grand Prix, just like I had in Berlin. A couple of wins for me now and I'll be right up there.

I had to start off the British GP in the pre-main heats because of my bad position from the German GP and the idea was to get into the next part of the GP, the Sweet Sixteen, as quickly as possible. When you get a tough race like I had in my second ride with Scoptt Nicholls, Mark Loram and Martin Dugard in it you don't want to be caught up in the pack because anything can happen, so you've got to be very determined to get into the main event.

I made a couple of good gates off gate two, which gave me plenty of confidence as not many riders were coming off that gate that well. It got hard in race 11, the first of the Sweet Sixteen competition and my third race when Gollob took me very wide on the first turn and I had to knuckle down and get past Greg Hancock, who'd come past me when Gollob took me wide. I thought about what I was doing very hard and managed to get Hancock back up the inside.

Race 18 was nearly a disaster for me. My chain came off when I got slightly out of shape on one of the ruts.

But actually it got me fired up because it put me into the next race which was an elimination event. Top two and you go into the semi-finals, third or fourth and you go home, eliminated.

I went out to do the business in that one and got second to Niklas Klingberg, which put me into the second semi-final, heat 22.

I made a great start in the semi off gate four and beat Rickardsson for the win.

That put me in the final. Gollob had first choice of gate and he chose gate two. I could have chosen gate one, but having made a fantastic start off gate four in my semi-final I chose gate four again. I hadn't gone off gate one all night, so stuck to four.

In the final Rickardsson made a jet of a start off one to win. In the early part of the race I wanted to make sure I'd get a rostrum place which I did, then on the second lap I thought I'd give it the lot and take a bit of a chance and see if I could catch Gollob. Going over the line for the next lap I was actualy beside him so I thought I'd give it another go and just went for it which worked and I got second, passing Gollob on the outside.

I knew I wasn't going to catch Rickardsson in front, although he wasn't all that far in front of me at the finish.

It is brilliant that the GP organisers Benfield are putting speedway into fantastic stadiums like that at Cardiff. The presentation of the show, the climax when we were all on the rostrum and the middle part which we provided as the riders I thought was all great.

I think the track was just about as good as you're going to get to be honest when you have to lay it down in a couple of days before the meeting.

But the whole package was great and a great result for me too. Roll on the Danish Grand Prix on July 28!

AFTER not having a good start to the world championship Grand Prix series in Berlin I'm hoping to kick start my GP season off at Cardiff's state of the art Millenium stadium, the setting for the British GP on Saturday.

My first GP was not a good one and leading up to it I just felt I wasn't riding that well, I was having a bit of trouble with my bikes but I wasn't riding that good either and to be honest now I feel that I'm riding a lot better and definitely happier with the way my bikes are working, so I'm just looking forward to Saturday.

I just only hope they don't make the same mistakes as the organisers did for the first GP in Berlin, when the track left a lot to be desired.

Our Grand Prix Riders' representative Bo Wirebrand, the former Swedish team manager, is now in Cardiff at the moment on behalf of all 22 GP riders, and our organisation is going to be more involved so things will be that much better for us, even down to the pit area, which in Germany was very ordinary for a GP, access for the public was very easy.

But I just need to get on with it now and after a day off on Thursday, it will be all roads to Cardiff on Friday to see the track for the first time and for practice.

My dad got into the UK on Sunday so he's at home right now working away on the world championship GP bikes for me which is good news for me.

In Sweden I was pretty happy when I got 14 from six rides away in Eskilstuna, but unfortunately the team were beaten in the league.

For King's Lynn I got 14 points, dropping one point in my first ride against Oxford, but the team also lost narrowly by two points 44-46 which was a bit of a downer and we lost Peter Karlsson, probably for the season. with a dislocated hip with the ball joint on the hip being broken.

We then went off to Oxford with a weakened King's Lynn team and I got 12 points from six rides, which was not that good. It was an awkward situation which we tried to make the best of.

KING'S LYNN, my UK team had superb home and away wins in the Elite League Knockout Cup this week.

The first leg was at Belle Vue where the team gelled really nicely and there was a great performance from everyone and we hit the Aces with 47 points to their 39.

Peter Karlsson was paid for the lot for us, and was unbeaten by any opposition rider, while I was very happy to drop just one point from my four rides.

This superb performance away by the team meant the pressure in the home leg on our own track was not so great and it really was a one sided match with only Jason Lyons and Kai Laukkanen showing anything at all for Belle Vue.

As a team one to seven it was probably King's Lynn's best performance of the season so far.

We won the second leg 56-34, which puts us into the hat for the next round of the KO Cup.

Don't write King's Lynn off yet in the Elite League either, despite our lowish position in the league table!

I think we can pull it back because we've done a lot more away meetings than we have done home meetings and we should have a lot of advantage with the bonus point situation, when we ride these teams back at our home track. And it looks like one of those seasons, when no team will finish with an intact home record. There's already been a few shocks.

But I think my best chance to win medals this year is in the Swedish league with Vargarna, we've got a really good team there this year and are one of the favourites to do well this season. In the side with me this year are Jason Lyons, Jimmy Nilsen, Niklas Karlsson and Jesper B Jensen and a couple of half handy reserves too. We beat Bysarna away from home last week 51-45 and I scored a five ride maximum.

I was in Poland for an away league match for Gorzow at Wroclaw, where we finally went down by just eight points.

I got a paid 12 points in that match, but in scoring 41 points to Wroclaw's 49 we aquitted ourselves really well because that's the best result an away side has had at Wroclaw this year. They are very strong this year and have Greg Hancock and Scott Nicholls riding for them this season, and they're only their second string riders!

I was talking to Tony Rickardsson on the way from Poland to Sweden this week and he told me his Swedish club side Masarna only got 25 points in total at Wroclaw, and Rickardsson got 10 of them!