​FINAL DAY OF THE JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS
Now we hope that everyone enjoyed their weekend celebrating our 60th anniversary with us and that you are now all home safe from your travels to us over the weekend it has been so lovely to see so many faces enjoying the sport that we are all involved in.
Yesterday, Sunday the 19th June we started the day with a best pairs meeting with 6 teams taking to the track to begin the final day of celebrations.
After 4 out of their 5 heats being 7-3 to them the Birmingham pairing of Paul Heard and Chris Timms took home the winners jerseys sponsored by Connor Dyke with his company Connors Construction. In second place was the Wednesfield Pairing of Brandon Whetton and Chris Jewkes who were the only pairing to stop Heard and Timms running of 7-3 in the final heat where each team secured 5 points. To complete the podium it was the Exeter pairing being JJ Wildman and Connor Tucker.
Full results:
1st Birmingham: Paul Heard and Chris Timms 33 points
2nd Wednesfield: Chris Jewkes and Brandon Whetton 29 points
3rd Exeter: JJ Wildman and Connor Tucker 24 points
Joint 4th Ipswich A and B: Ashley Hill and James Porter (A), Owen Wells and Ben Clarke (B) both teams on 23 points
6th Select: Tom Bewick, Rob and Owen Geach 18 points
Next up was the Women's event with 13 girls in the field nevertheless some good racing was taken to the track for some enjoyable and entertaining racing. Sponsoring the event was Tom Bewick with his company Sweetie Blinders putting up sweets and merch up for grabs. Wednesfield's own Georgia within the line up finished on 15 points putting her in 6th place as the whole line up went in one point descending order.
On behalf of Wednesfield Aces we would also like to wish Honey Whitehead a speedy recovery after an awkward fall yesterday which has resulted in a broken scaphoid. We wish you well Honey and that you have a quick recovery.
Winner: Emily Burgess, A&T 20 points
2nd: Lily Parr, Kesgrave 19 points
3rd: Maddie Saunders, Poole 18 points
To close off the weekend we had the open final with a full line up of 16 riders it saw the return of Wednesfield's own Carl Parfitt jump back on a cycle speedway bike to go on and score 9 points. Despite none finishing in the top three our other Wednesfield riders put up a good effort in the event with Chris scoring 15 points to finish 5th, Brandon Whetton scored 13 points, Tom Bewick and Lee Kemp both scoring 8 points. Winning the Open to secure the £100 cash prize put up by the sponsor of the event Glyn Rowley, Libertas 2 was Paul Heard from Birmingham after scoring 19 points.
Results:
Winner: Paul Heard, Birmingham 19 points
2nd: Chris Timms, Birmingham 18 points
3rd: Lukas Nowaki, Horspath 17 points
Thank you for everyone's support over the weekend we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

​4th PLACE FOR COREY AND A WIN FOR THE ENGLAND SELECT ON DAY ONE
To kickstart our jubilee weekend the under 14’s took to the Wednesfield track. With home track start favourite Corey winning his first three races after going from third to first in one of his races in one straight he was in good contention for the podium but after two thirds in his last two races he finished in fourth in a formula completed with the full 16 riders.
Winner: Ryker Jolly, Kesgrave (20)
2nd: Shaun Kell, Norwich (19)
3rd: Duncan Whalley, A&T (17)
Thanks to the Burts for sponsoring the event the appreciation of the winners top was shown by the Kesgrave rider commenting ’oohhh beautiful’
Next up were the Juniors a special thanks to Ryker (Kesgrave) and Laythan (Sheffield) for stepping up to complete the line up. Thanks to Libertas 2 for sponsoring the event and putting up the £50 cash prize which was secured by Kesgraves Noah Woodhouse who scored a 20 point maximum.
Winner: Noah Woodhouse, Kesgrave (20)
2nd: JJ Wildman, Exeter (18)
3rd: Kielan Burton, Sheffield (17)
Sponsoring the Vets event was thanks to Mr Rhodes and Mr Bodley. Despite not having a full line up some great competitive racing was shown with two riders needing a run off to complete the podium as Craig Marchant and Gavin Wheeler both finished on 17 points in the end it was the Leicester rider Craig who claimed the third spot.
Winner: Mark Winwood, Birmingham (20)
2nd: Lukas Nowaki, Horspath (19)
3rd: Craig Marchant, Leicester (17)
The final event of the day was our Wednesfield Select managed by Mick Aris vs England Select managed by Wayne Aris. After a very close match throughout in the pouring rain in the end it was the England side that secured the win 88-90.
Thank you to everyone for joining us on day one of the weekend more competitive racing to be seen and food to be eaten today as we commence with day two with our best pairs event starting at 11am to begin race day number 2!