Last night we celebrated the 2019 race season as a club highlighting all the achievements that we earnt as a club and as individuals over the past year.
First up was all the respects to all the helping hands that work behind the scenes helping to set up but also serving cups of tea throughout match days and those cold training nights with gifts of flowers being given to kitchen helpers Kelly and Mrs Wells, to Mrs Burt for all the help on match days, training nights and on our social media pages a small gift was also given to Laura as a huge thank you for pits marshalling throughout the year on match days. Gifts of chocolates and smelly sets were given to the Burt sisters and a bag of chocolates for Corey to for all the jobs that they do around the track. After waiting all season for a Wednesfield Aces sweatshirt Harry was presented one for all his hard work in the kitchen. Huge well done to you all, your help is very much appreciated the club wouldn't be run the same without you all...
Next up was the presentations for those who had been given awards from the Wolverhampton Community Excellence Awards to which the club received 5 awards. A huge thanks must go out to Mr Tipton who rushed up to be there to collect the awards for the club very last minute. The awards were presented on the Wolverhampton awards night by the Deputy Mayor and then on our presentation evening by our club secretary. The awards included:
55 years of Community Excellence to Wednesfield Aces Cycle Speedway Club awarded to Mr Bodley.
The Community Volunteering Award awarded to our club coaches Steve, Martin and Chris.
Urban Community/ Wednesfield In Bloom Award awarded to Wayne Tipton for his great work on the Wednesfield Memorial Garden. 
Community Excellence Volunteering Award and being part of the British Cycling Young Volunteer Award to Georgia Burt.
A Walk of Stars plaque for Cycle Speedway World Champion Mr Roger Ellis. A star with his name on will be being laid in Ashmore Park.
Moving onto the Tuesday kids award every Tuesday rider was give a trophy for all their hard work and participation throughout the year. So well done to all of you guys and girls! 
The awards from the Club Championships that was held at the end of our race season were given out next. 
In the under 8's category: 1st Kylan, 2nd Jacob, 3rd Amber 
Under 10's category: 1st Joban, Joint 2nd/3rd Robyn and Finley.S
Under 12's category: 1st Corey, 2nd Brandon, 3rd Eve
Juniors category: 1st Ellis, 2nd Nat, 3rd Megan 
Seniors category: 1st Chris, 2nd Tom, 3rd Brandon 
Vets category: 1st Phil, 2nd Mick, 3rd Mr "Bonky" Banks 
The next set of awards was the team mangers awards:
Division 3 rider of the year went to Jacob for saving the team at Coventry jumping into the team last minute and also showing the best sportsmanship, shouting for his team mates in and outside of the pits.
Division 2 rider of the year went to Ellis chosen by manager Harry.
Division 1 rider of the year went to Chris chosen by manager Wayne Aris.
Most improved rider for 2019 went to Ellis for all his achievements of this year becoming the regional and national British Youth and Junior Champion which is no easy task in the U14's Category. 
Riders rider of the year went to Tom who again has improved so much over the season as well as showing great sportsmanship. 
Volunteer of the Year award went to Georgia for all the work she has done around the track and on social media along side her mom but also for completing her British cycling Awards throughout this season. 
The final set of awards went out to the Division one side after again winning the Midland League under manager Wayne's leadership. Trophies for this accomplishment went out to:
Jordan, Tyler, Tom, CJ, Owen, Matt, Scott, Lee and Brandon. 
With the presentations over it was time for food and a raffle a huge thanks for all who brought tickets and donated things for the raffle then it was time for Georgia to teach all the kids how to dance on the dance floor for the rest of the night! 
A fab night had by all. We will see you in the new year so have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. To get all the latest news and updates join our Facebook page Wednesfield Aces Cycle Speedway Club, follow us on Instagram @wednesfield_aces or keep an eye on this website. 
Photos can be found in the Gallery or on Facebook thanks to Georgia our official photographer. 
 

Under 8's - Jacob qualified with 5 points allowing him to place 2nd in the C final in his first British!
Under 12 Boys- Corey scored 13 pts finishing 7th.
Under 14's Girls- Megs also finished on 13 points just missing out on the rostrum to finish 4th.
Under 16's girls- Georgia finished on 13 points.
Juniors- Owen finished on 10 points.
Women's- Georgia finished with another 13 points.
Chris also then went to race in the Open final and had some good races. 

After our spectacular opening of our newly featured memorial garden and a fantastic match against Poole in the cross over league afterwards. Find us in the August/September issue of the Wednesfield Magazine for the full article. 

I just want to say that I think the Wednesfeld Aces have played a really super role in the run up to the Wednesfield in Bloom bid. The opening of your Memorial Garden was special!
It looks great, it fitted the project that the community were involved in here on Ashmore Park. The fact that the Club spotted the synergie was masterful. I was as was my fellow Councillors very proud to be invited to your opening ceremony.
We were also extremely pleased to see The Club supporting #TheStuff4Steph Fun Day Saturday 6th July. Again the Club playing a part within the community. Tonight I hope that the new contacts you made at that event enjoy their time with you at the training. Wednesfield Aces is a great sporting club and I Mary and Rita wish you well going forward!

Thanks to the new three year sponsorship given to the club thanks to Linak. This meant brand new race tops! Here are the official photos of our new team tops taken by Mr Burtie Burt: 
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Weekly Round Up
Last Saturday at Wednesfield we held the Midlands Grand Prix sponsored by Dash Trophies and hosted by Mr Dash Trophies himself, Mr Steve Mullinder.
The starting line ups for both the Junior and Senior events held a wealth of talent so a good days racing was expected. Up first were the juniors with the likes of the Brinkoff brothers, Tyler and Lewis, Fraser Garnett, Coventry’s Cameron Gill & Tom, Horspath’s Will Jeffery plus Wednesfield’s own Tyler Bould and Owen Wells within the field the results were going to be tight. After some very tough, competitive, physical racing the winner of the 2019 series Grand Prix all came down to a run off between Ipswich’s Lewis Brinkoff and Poole’s Fraser Garnett. After 4 hard going laps Fraser took the win meaning Lewis finished in second followed by Horspath’s Will Jeffery taking the third spot.
Next up were the seniors which was also predicted to be a well fought out affair with last years winner Josh Brooke making an appearance alongside Britain’s number two and three Ben Mould and Paul Heard fulfilled the line-up along with ever improving senior riders such as A&T’s Reece Pollit and Aces Tom Bewick; who did not shy away from the challenge. Some great racing was witnessed with numerous tape exclusions, crashes, many spectacular passes and in some respects some acrobatics this again resulted in Josh Brooke to take away the “newly cleaned!” Midlands Grand Prix trophy. Followed by Lukas Nowacki taking the second place with 17 points but it was the third spot which resulted in a three-way run off between Zac Payne, Paul Heard and Ben Mould with Zac coming out on top to complete the podium positions.
 
The following day began the Midlands League races for the Aces as they took on rivals Birmingham. Division 3 saw new manager Georgia lead the foxes through the match to only loose by one point in one of the final heats after leading the whole match. Next up was Division one which was seen to be one of the biggest challenges for the aces for this season. After some very eventful, competitive racing the aces took the win 4 points clear of the monarchs. To finish a weekend full of racing on the Ashmore race way Aces division two side battled against the monarchs to finish 73(-7) to Birmingham’s 76 points well done all!
This weekend we will see Wednesfield vs Coventry in a Midland League match on Sunday 17th starting with Division 3 at 1pm. Can all riders please be there for 12 to help set up!
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Last night we held our annual presentation night over at Corpus Christi. With many friendly faces there a very enjoyable night went ahead with lots of laughs and awards given out on the night including those for the Club Championships from the end of the 2018 season. 
Bring on the 2019 season with many more awards to come! 
All pictures can be found on our Facebook group or within the gallery on this website...
​See you all soon for training...