Edwards Is Supporters Rider Of The Year!

It was a time for reflection, celebration, thank-yous, awards and a very significant goodbye as Mildenhall Speedway Club – proudly sponsored by Manchetts Rescue and Recovery – staged their 2022 Presentation Evening at Beck Row Community Hub on Friday (18/11).

At the end of a hard season when the Fen Tigers faced more adversity in the way of injuries than anyone can recall, the bottom line was that the side finished runners up in the National Development League (both in the final table and in the Play Offs) and also took silver in the division’s Knock Out Cup – so a case, equally, of so near yet so far but more than that, satisfaction at an incredibly plucky effort to reach two Finals- hugely against the odds.

Opening proceedings, promoter Greg Palmer spoke emotionally about what it takes to put on Speedway at West Row,
“It’s a massive effort each meeting that goes on behind the scenes and I can’t thank enough the incredible work done by the track staff, the pits team, the riders.  You work hard to get everything together and it’s just such a feeling of great satisfaction to then see the tapes rise on heat one and Jason [Edwards] out there winning for the Fen Tigers. I feel it as a fan because that’s exactly what I am and what the rest of our management team here at Mildenhall Speedway are.

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Report: Leicester v Mildenhall

The 2022 season ended for Mildenhall Fen Tigers – proudly sponsored by Manchetts Rescue and Recovery – at King’s Lynn’s Norfolk Arena on Friday evening, with their terribly depleted ranks going down to a heavy 62 points to 28 against well-deserved National Development League winners, Leicester Lion Cubs.

Having lost the first leg the previous week to the well-drilled East Midlanders at West Row by 15, it would’ve taken a  recovery which the club’s main sponsors would’ve been rightly proud of to turn this around – Leicester losing home advantage and having to up sticks to neutral King’s Lynn to get this meeting done (four days after what should have been the official end of the season) might have given the Fen men a glimmer of hope were it not for losing FIVE members of their remaining squad – the absentee list finally joined on the day of the Grand Final by Luke Muff, out with a damaged hand.

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