SWINDON Robins skipper Jason Doyle is not getting carried away despite pulling clear at the top of the world championship standings with a superb second-place finish at Saturday’s British Grand Prix.

Doyle defied a broken foot to continue his perfect record of making every final in the Speedway Grand Prix series this year in Cardiff by finishing runner-up behind Polish rider Maciej Janowski.

The 31-year-old Australian arrived at the Principality Stadium level on points (65) at the top of the standings with another Pole, Patryk Dudek, but he now holds the outright lead alone at the halfway stage of the season on 78, three clear of Dudek and Janowski.

However, with six meetings still to go before the world champion is crowned in Melbourne in October, Doyle is keeping his feet firmly on the ground.

“There is a long way to go in the season, another six more Grand Prix. It doesn’t matter where you stand at the moment, you just need to bang the points in until the end of the season and see where you stand,” said Doyle.

“We are all going to be pushing hard. It’s the Grand Prix, it’s hard but fair racing.

“Patryk was my strongest challenger after the last Grand Prix. Now I am leading it but there is so far to go, it doesn’t really matter what the points are at the moment. We need to keep bagging points and I need to get off to a better start because I am making it hard for myself.

“I feel a bit silly running around on crutches but every time I ride a motorbike, the foot swells up really bad.

“I am just trying to tame it down a bit to get the injury a lot better in the next couple of weeks as I want to get rid of the extra legs and start concentrating on my racing.

“The pain is not as bad when you’re drinking champagne.”

Doyle’s 13-point haul was built on the nine he collected in the qualifying heats to reach the semi-finals.

Nine riders matched or bettered that haul, with Great Britain star Tai Woffinden the unlucky man to miss out on the semis on countback and Doyle believes that surprise early elimination shows just how tough the GP series is this year.

“I base myself on getting eight points so going out with nine points just shows you how tough the field is this year,” said Doyle.

“In the last two years, you knew you could actually beat certain riders. I know it’s the world championship but when you have got a bit of confidence, you know you have got a good chance, but this year, you have riders who are professional athletes going for the same goal.”