TT Grandstand

[3] The startline for the 1911 TT races was originally situated on a level section of the A2 Quarterbridge Road between Selborne Drive and Woodlands Lodge in Douglas.

[5] The 1920s wooden structure was demolished and replaced with a modern purpose-built brick design on newly acquired land for the 1986 TT Races.

The new development incorporated a race control and communications tower, a wider pit-lane and seating placed 30 ft (9.1 m) further away from the refuellers due to FIM requirements for enhanced competitor and spectator safety concerning fire-risk.

The deceleration lane provides a braking area, terminating in a hairpin turn-around loop in Nobles Park before connecting to the return road, leading back to the winners enclosure and parc fermé, situated as part of the paddock complex, for all race finishers.

The accommodation was in the form of 45 ft (14 m) stacked shipping containers, modified and fitted-out as commodious sleep cells.

TT Grandstand area with scoreboard to extreme left, course start/finish to left (in distance), pit lane with re-fuelling equipment and acceleration lane to centre, [ 1 ] and return road to extreme right leading to parc ferme in distance [ 2 ]
Pit lane approach with machine pre-race assembly area to extreme left, concourse with grandstand to left, demarcated lanes with re-fuelling equipment to centre, course start/finish on A2 Glencrutchery Road with timekeeper's box and scoreboard to extreme right
Former racer James Whitham (centre right with nozzle over his shoulder) as part of a 2012 TT refuelling crew