Ole Olsen Racing On Dvd

[TonyMac]

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER ON DOUBLE-DISC DVD!

OLE OLSEN RACING

£16 for FOUR HOURS

 

ONE of the all-time greats, Ole Olsen put Denmark on the speedway map when he became his country's first motorsport World Champion in 1971.

 

The inspirational former Newcastle, Wolverhampton and Coventry colossus paved the way for a new generation of young Danes to follow in his illustrious tyre tracks before his retirement from racing at the end of 1983.

 

Here's your chance to re-live many of Ole's most important races and key moments of a great career that brought him every major title worth winning.

 

This four-hour, double-disc set will be released on August 10, 2015 and includes:

 

* 100-plus races featuring Ole from England, Denmark, Poland, Sweden, Germany, Australia, Czech Republic and Norway.

 

* See him in action from 50-plus different meetings at 30 venues throughout Europe, including rare, previously unseen footage.

 

* Watch Ole win his three individual World Championship titles and lead Denmark to World Team Cup and World Pairs glory.

 

* Re-live his classic battles with main rival and former mentor Ivan Mauger, as well as titanic tussles with Anders Michanek, Peter Collins, Michael Lee, Bruce Penhall, John Louis, Hans Nielsen, Erik Gundersen, Tommy Knudsen, etc.

 

* Big meeting controversies.

 

* Contemporary interviews with speedway's first Great Dane.

 

* Action and speeches from his last-ever meeting in 1983.

 

To pre-order for £16 (post-free in UK, or £2.50 anywhere overseas), visit www.retro-speedway.com or phone Susie on 01708 734 502.

 

RETRO SPEEDWAY . . . keeping great memories alive!

 

[Midland Red]

Does it give any mention of the damage he and his circus has caused to British speedway - probably for ever?

[The White Knight]

Does it give any mention of the damage he and his circus has caused to British speedway - probably for ever?

Never liked him. This one is not for me.

[cityrebel]

Never liked him. This one is not for me.

same here, one of my least favourite riders of all time. It was bad enough watching him race live!

[moxey63]

Oh dear... a lot of space needed at Retro Towers to store the unsold Ole DVDs.

 

I didn't mind him... a real star appeal when he turned up at my track.

[frigbo]

I thought he was brilliant. Ruthless, could pass and a really clever rider. Top 3 ever in my book.

Edited August 5, 2015 by frigbo

[stratton]

I thought he was brilliant. Ruthless, could pass and a really clever rider. Top 3 ever in my book.

Certainly top eight i have him in front of Hans and Erik,a great rider could gate could pass was an excellent team man team rider what a brilliant race style he had.

Does it give any mention of the damage he and his circus has caused to British speedway - probably for ever?

I agree with that,but he was truely a great rider.

[frigbo]

There's a vid of ht 6 from the 1983 IC Final which shows all of Olsen's qualities, in what was his last seaaon too.

Great 1st bend, brutal move on Chris Morton and then dealing with Sigalos via passes both inside and out.

Edited August 5, 2015 by frigbo

[stratton]

Olsen should of won Four or five titles he was that good, did not do badly i suppose.People i speak to dont really put him near the all time top ten i do.

[frigbo]

Only Nielsen and Rickardsson better all-round riders that I've seen at their peak.

[waiheke1]

Olsen should of won Four or five titles he was that good, did not do badly i suppose.People i speak to dont really put him near the all time top ten i do.

Would have to be top ten Sid. Best rider of his era apart from mauger. Pick of the three time world champs for mine, though would rate him behind Hans in terms of greatest Dane.

And certainly in the top handful of visiting riders around Hyde rd

[cityrebel]

I remember seeing preben rosenkilde beat Olsen at west ham in 1971. It made a big impression on me as a kid, I bet that race ain't on the DVD!

[Grand Central]

Interesting subject this one.

 

I would be really interested to see what tmc's sales figures show for each of these single rider DVDs.

Not prurient interest in his business.

But to relate the sales and interest in the individual riders.

 

Olsen, was someone I really disliked.

Absolutely hated, as a rider, in the 70s and 80s

 

But I have to also admit that as a 'grown up' I think he was brilliant, as well.

Probably the best Danish rider to date..

Better than Nielsen, Gundersen, Pedersen. Them all.

 

But I could not bring myself to pay one single penny to buy a DVD of him. Let alone £16.

Daft isn't it?

 

Sorry Tony.

Edited August 6, 2015 by Grand Central

[stratton]

Only Nielsen and Rickardsson better all-round riders that I've seen at their peak.

Cant have Ricko as a better all round rider certainly not in the leagues.Also i was never a Hans fan, i see quite alot of him and if i am honest he could of won 8 titles he was exceptional.I would put Olsen in front of Ricko and i believe Olsen would of excelled in a GP Series in certain years a rider who put bums on seats.

[waiheke1]

In a gp system though I reckon Olsen would have only won 2 or 3 titles. 75,78 any other years?

[stratton]

In a gp system though I reckon Olsen would have only won 2 or 3 titles. 75,78 any other years?

I think 1971, 72, 73, 74, he would of had a squeak at least a rostrum place with the old scoring system in place i could of seen him being there abouts.Mauger,Michanek, for me were two of the main men then, he was on a par with those.Also in today's format god how many semi/ finals would he of reached? loads of them i believe.In my time Nielsen is the only rider for me for a period with the format in place now that could of dominated the series he would of won more than four titles.

[waiheke1]

He would have been on the podium almost every year in the 70s I reckon, but champ only twice imo. Collins would have won a couple, Lee one, michanek maybe 1, and Ivan the rest.

Agree Hans would likely have won 6-9 titles under the current format.

[stratton]

He would have been on the podium almost every year in the 70s I reckon, but champ only twice imo. Collins would have won a couple, Lee one, michanek maybe 1, and Ivan the rest. Agree Hans would likely have won 6-9 titles under the current format.

With the scoring would Mauger have been a certainty in some years? i am not so sure i think he was brilliant in the intense one/off meeting's.

[Grand Central]

This 'fantasising' about how the GPs round have worked out in retrospect is all a little contrived, to me.

The truth would have been very different, I feel.

As everything we know now about those days would be changed in many ways we cannot properly figure.

 

Someone like Ivan Mauger would have set himself up with a totally different approach.

He may have opted out of the BL in the early seventies and devoted everything on the GPs.

He would have put together an invincible team.

Don't think anyone else would have stood a chance for the whole decade; and with the reduced workload his career would have been extended in to Greg Hancock territory, quite easily.

 

The old boy would have been champion many times more than 'just' six.

Edited August 6, 2015 by Grand Central

[waiheke1]

What you say gc is true in some ways, though don't agree with the specifics.

I'm not sure how Ivan would have stayed sharp enough to race GPS without racing in the BL, though appreciate he may have skipped the odd meeting -certainly no modern gp rider has been able to successfully opt out of league racing, if only because the income is needed to fund the gp efforts. It has also proved incredibly difficult to retain titles, so while I expect mauger would have dominated the early 70s I'm not sure he would have significantly increased his number of titles. Ole was also pretty professional, and then of course you have the pure talent of Collins and lee