The city-based Dane has been runner-up in the last two rounds of the World Championship and wants to go one better in Daugavpils tonight.

He said: "I really feel as though my form has improved since all the problems I was having at Peterborough came out in the open.

"I have been much more relaxed and enjoying my racing again, which makes a big difference.

"I'm really pleased with how things are going for me in the GPs and I would love to put a win on the board.

"I haven't had one since 2006 and I feel I am overdue."

But Latvia has not proved to be a happy hunting ground for Andersen in the past two years.

In 2006 he suffered a hand injury in a crash with fellow Danish rider Bjarne Pedersen and last year was detained in hospital overnight after sustaining concussion in two separate smashes.

Fellow former Panthers asset Niels Kristian Iversen's participation tonight is in jeopardy.

Iversen suffered a dislocated shoulder during Wolverhampton's defeat at Belle Vue on Wednesday night – the second time he has picked up that injury this season.