This documentary is about champion speedway driver Ivan Mauger. Mauger powered and slid his motorbike around oval tracks to a record six individual world speedway titles from 1968-79. Interviews with Mauger and his family cover his long career, from his boy racer beginnings - he muses that in Spain the heroes are bullfighters, but in Christchurch they were speedway riders - to his Western Springs farewell and a tribute from David Lange. His focus on winning comes through, "if you show me a good loser you show me someone who consistently loses".
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Helen
Posted at 08.04AM - 05.03.2010
I really enjoyed watching this, having been born in 1959 and only watching since 1970, I hardly remember Ivan. But he showed great skills that other riders wanted.