Twenty one months ago Jordan Jenkins guested for the Fen Tigers against Plymouth in the clubs final home meeting of 2019. Returning to Mildenhall today as the clubs new team Captain for 2021 ys Jenkins ran out a highly impressive winner of todays British Under 21 Semi Final.
The Norwich based racer stylishly went through the card unbeaten to finish the afternoon the victor with Kent’s Jake Mulford and Eastbourne’s Nathan Ablitt taking the minor places. The other three qualifiers were Jack Parkinson-Blackburn (4th), popular Fen Tiger Sam Bebee (5th) and Alex Spooner (6th). As well as Jenkins success it was a sparkling return from Bebee who hadn’t ridden in a competitive meeting since 2018, the ever popular Fen Tiger recorded three race wins in an impressive 11 point total. The other two Fen Tigers in the field Elliot Kelly and Sam Hagon scored 8 and 3 points respectively.
Speaking after the meeting co-owner Phil Kirk was full of the positives after the first meeting back at their West Row home – he said-
“It’s hard to express how pleased the four of us are after today, it has been a very stressful time building up to todays meeting, but what we have just seen makes all the hard work worthwhile. Major thanks go to our fabulous track staff and officials who organised everything to the minute, from temperature testing riders, to organising the outside pit areas to the car park attendants and much much more everyone played an important part, it was truly a team effort today.
Thank you to all the supporters who turned out today and supported the covid requirements placed upon everyone, it was a great to see such a large crowd to welcome speedway back to Mildenhall and you really cheered our lads on, and just when we thought it couldn’t get better Jordan wins the meeting, a perfect afternoon.
Sam qualifying too and the fine efforts of Elliot and Sam were the icing on the cake and now we look forward to Leicester on the 16th June before returning home for a big meeting versus Eastbourne on Sunday 20th June”
Todays Qualifiers – Jordan Jenkins (15 pts), Jake Mulford (13), Nathan Ablitt (12), Jack Parkinson-Blackburn (12), Sam Bebee (11) and Alex Spooner (9).
