[1] He is a six times World Cup winner and earned 24 caps for the Poland national speedway team.
[2] He received his speedway license in 1998 with the Polish team Polonia Piła, although he first started racing on a mini-track in Pawłowice, close to the city of Leszno.
In 2005 he won the Speedway World Cup with Poland, together with Tomasz Gollob, Piotr Protasiewicz, Grzegorz Walasek and Rune Holta; beating Sweden, Denmark and Great Britain in the final held at the Olympic Stadium in Wrocław, Poland.
In 2000, he began his British leagues career when he joined Ipswich Witches[4] and rode for them until mid-way through the 2009 season.
He later won six Speedway World Cups with Poland during an eight year period.