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Legacy lives on at Spotty Burke

Trent Headland and Jaxon Rayner. Picture: Andrew Gosling
Lachlan Gould

In 1971, Broken Hill’s Colin “Spot” Burke retired and cemented himself as one of the best sidecar racers in Australia. Now, more than half a century after his career ended, the town assembled at the Speedway in his honour, as the Spotty Burke Memorial began. On track, around 170 cubic inches of engine released around […]

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