ACES DUO AT BYJL
Aces youngsters Corey and Jacob both headed over to Coventry yesterday to compete in the second round of the Midlands British Youth and Junior League.
From his points in the qualifying heats Jacob secured his place into the A final to finish fourth overall on the day!
Corey also made his way into the A final where he finished in 2nd place
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Well done boys!

The next BYJL will be held at Birmingham on the 18th May!

As Astley and Tyldesley had to cancel the return match at the Wednesfield track only the Eurovets round went ahead down at the track on Saturday. The Aces themselves had two riders competing in the line up. Chris Jewkes who is improving every week following being out last season after an ACL injury he qualified for the A final which he finished in fourth place. Lee Aris who is also making a great come back into the sport after getting back on a speedway bike mid way through last season following his return from Australia. Lee also qualified for the Over 40's A final which he went and won ahead of the closely followed Kevin Burns from Leicester. 

Sunday while Georgia was down in Ipswich the midlands clubs once again congressed to the Wednesfield track for a four a side team match. With 22 riders present four teams were made up of riders from all the Midlands clubs alongside some of the younger junior members of the region also partaking in their own formula. The team composed of Ellis Richmond (Wednesfield), Nathaniel Ward (Wednesfield), Lukas Kaczmarek (Leicester), Geordan Onions (Leicester) and Junior rider Carson from Birmingham took the win of the day scoring an impressive 77 points, 8 points clear of the second place team. 
Down in Ipswich Georgia raced alongside the other Midlands Women who finished in third place in the team event, and then in the individuals Georgia qualified for the expert B final where she finished in third. 

Tonight is our weekly Tuesday Kids Club! The club is always looking for new riders so if your able to ride a bike come and give cycle speedway a go and we'll give you your first two weeks completely FREE then sessions are then only £3.50 for an hours worth of training and the hire of equipment per week. Training will take place 6:30pm till 7:30pm followed by our junior and senior training.

Thursday will be our senior training night from 7pm.

Saturday we are now hosts for the Eurovets round instead of Birmingham as well as welcoming the Astley and Tyldesley team down to our track for a match. All are welcome and there will be refreshments available for purchase on the day!
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Sunday Wednesfield will again be playing hosts for the first round of the Midlands fours event while Georgia will be heading down to Ipswich to compete in the first round of the Women's League!

The Eurovets round which was supposed to be held at Birmingham this Saturday has been changed and will now be hosted by Wednesfield! 
All are welcome to come and spectate entry is FREE and refreshments will be available to purchase. 
Also on Saturday we will be welcoming the Astley and Tyldesley team down to the track for a match against our senior team in the Midlands and North crossover friendly match! 
We hope to see you there! 

Saturday at Wednesfield Aces we kicked off the start of the British Youth and Junior Series (BYJL). Representing the club we had Jacob Jewkes in the Under 12's event, Corey Burt in the Under 16's and Elijah Ward in the Under 18's category. All the lads rode incredibly well with despite the low numbers across all the categories still provided close and competitive racing. 
Jacob scored 8 points from the heat but secured a respectable 17 points from his third place in the close finishing of the Under 12's A final.
Corey scored 14 points meaning he was the second highest scorer from his heats which included two race wins. He then went onto finish second in the A final after attempting a pass on the eventual winner of the category, Coventry's Jude Wilcockson. 
Elijah participated in the Under 18's category after finishing on 8 points from the heats then secured himself the 18 grand prix points to finish second in the junior A final behind Birmingham's Connor Steel.

On Sunday a team of five Aces riders headed over to the Perry Barr track for Birmingham Monarchs Club Day who chose to host a 4's event. 5 teams which included 2 teams from Birmingham, Wednesfield, Coventry and Leicester all went head to head to see which team could secured the most points from the 20 heat race formula. The winners of the day was Birmingham's A team on 44 points with Wednesfield finished the day in third place after scoring 39 points following some close races including a crash from Elijah in his first heat. The teams highest scorer went to the returned Ellis Richmond who went on to score a maximum of 12 points from his three rides with Georgia taking one of his rides as the reserve rider of the day to take the opportunity to race against the other Midlands girls to score 7 points from 3 rides. Also included in the team was CJ who secured 6 points from his two second places, Elijah who scored 6 points following his crash in the first race and Ben Morgan contributing another 7 points to the team. 
An entertaining day of racing which was enjoyed by all! 

Photos from the BYJL courtesy of Myke Grimes (Coventry) 
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Many thanks to Mick Aris for the submission of the race report as follows: 
The aces travelled north to Manchester on Sunday first up was a little practice at the Stockport track which a lot of the present team had never seen, an idea from Lee to get the young aces used to riding other tracks than the Ashmore circuit. A good time was had by all and then it was onto Astley &Tyldesley for the more serious matter of the aces first team match of the season 
ht 1 CJ - S,Harris - Ben - J Pollington
time-47.19 a good pass by Ben on lap2                                4-6

ht 2 Lee - T,Norman - Jasper - N,Tumiz
time 46.87 last bend pass for Jasper to dead heat last point 
                                    4 1/2-5 1/2

ht 3 D.Whalley - Scott - Nat - l,Edward
time 48.28 from the gate 5-5

ht 4 Ben - J,Pilkington - Lee - N,Tumiz 
time 49.17 mismatch Ben easy win lee decides to give the youngsters a race pipped on the line.                              4-6

ht 5 T,Norman - CJ - Elijah - l,Edward 
time 48.78 good race between CJ and Terry.                         5-5

ht 6 Ellis - S,Harris - Scott - J,Plknton 
time 47.57 first race for Ellis impressive win over former European champion Steve Harris.                                4-6

ht 7 Lee - D,whalley - Jasper - l,Edward
time 44.19 after being pipped in his last race Lee powers round from the gate to the afternoons fastest time   4-6

ht 8 Ellis - T,Norman - Ben - N,Tumiz 
time 47.45 2nd win for Ellis this time over former British champion Terry Norman. 4-6

ht 9 D,Whalley - Scott - Elijah - J,ptn 
time 46.78 Scott from the gate a bit of a mix up team riding allowed Whalley through  5-5

ht10 S,Harris - T,Norman - Jasper - Nat time 47.25 another mismatch the strongest pairing the opposition could put against the 2 youngsters  7-3

ht11 CJ - D,Whalley - Ben - l,Edward
time 48.58 CJ ftg Ben & Duncan passing and repassing with the Astley rider just getting it on the line great race.                   4-6

ht12 Ellis - T,Norman - Elijah - N,Tumizghy time 47.28 
Ellis proved no fluke with another win over Terry, Elijah was there as well just pipped on the line.                        4-6 

ht13 Lee - J,Pknton - S,Harris - jasper time 46.19 FTG Harris protecting his young teammate from Jasper.                       5-5

ht14 Ben - Scott - D,Whalley - N,Tumizghy time 48.72 
Great gate from Scott brings Ben round 1st bend the aces only maximum of the match 3-7

ht15 CJ - S,Harris - Nat - l,Edwards 
time 48.57 Harris makes the gate CJ under him first lap  4-6

ht16  Lee - T,Norman - Elijah - N,Tumizghy time 44.58 FTG

ht17 Ellis - D,Whalley - Jasper - l,Edwards time 50.94 Ellis completes his 4-ride max 4-6 

ht18 Scott - S,Harris - Nat - J,Pilkington time 46.13 Scott gets his first heat win of the day                                     4-6
 
A final score of 101 1/2 to 78 1/2  was a great win for the aces away from home with the whole of the team scoring good points look forward to the rematch in a couple of weeks where the Astley team who like the Aces where a few riders short will be considerably stronger.
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