Learnt The Hard Way
Had it not been for a serious crash many years ago the English international rider, John Burton, might never have become a world ranked moto-cross competitor. “I once fancied mystelf as a road racer but I became a ball of chalk at the second attempt. I came off at way over 100 miles an hour and got gravel rash in all the wrong places.” It was this that convinced him that he should stick to scramble racing, he said yesterday.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31239, 10 December 1966, Page 17
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