Advice from the master

Press, 9 December 1976, Page 23

Advice from the master

The former double world speedway champion, Ronnie Moore, has been in demand this summer as a tutor at a number of speedway schools. In the most recent school, held at the Templeton Pall Mall Speedway less than a fortnight ago, he put 15 promising young riders through their paces.

“At the end of the day, many of them were showing a lot of promise,” he said afterwards. “Some of them really stood out. I was very pleased.”

Moore had intended to have the same riders at a second school a week later to discover how much they had absorbed

and to take them a stage further. Unfortunately, problems over preparing the track forced him to abandon this plan and it now seems that his next school at Templeton will not be until some time after Christmas. Forced into retirement by a crash in Australia nearly two years ago, Moore has been busy handing his knowledge on to others this summer. He conducted a school at Martinborough before the season started, where he spent a considerable amount of time trying to pursuade a 14-year-old lad that he was too young to break into the sport in England and

would be better advised to concentrate on school work.

A school was then held at Invercargill and Moore was very pleased to note that the riders who defeated Canterbury B in the recent inter-provincial match at Templeton were all products or his school.

One of the most naturally talented riders the sport has known and a legend in his own life time, Moore is convinced that schools such as the one he has been running can be of great benefit to young riders. “There is no lack of talent about. The riders just need to be shown the correct way to do things.”