Verandah, Isle of Man

The Verandah, Isle of Man is a series of four bends which are negotiated at high speed by competitive motorcycles during road racing on the Snaefell Mountain Course.

Located on the primary A18 Snaefell Mountain Road which starts at Ramsey and then traverses the Snaefell mountain at 1,400 ft (430 m) altitude before leading to Douglas, the Verandah is built around the edge of a Snaefell mountainside slope with adjacent steep drops between the 29th and 30th Milestone markers measured from the startline at the TT Grandstand. Falling within the parishes of Lezayre and Lonan in the Isle of Man, it precedes The Bungalow, a major viewing point and visitor attraction on the TT course.

The Verandah series of bends follows the land contours of Snaefell mountain as an embankment with a purpose-built graded road section and reflects nineteenth-century highway and railway construction practices.

The Verandah area nearby Stonebreakers Hut was part of the Highland Course and Four Inch Course used for the Gordon Bennett Trial and Tourist Trophy automobile car races held in the Isle of Man between 1904 and 1911. Also, the Verandah is part of the Snaefell Mountain Course used since 1911 for the Isle of Man TT and from 1923 for the Manx Grand Prix Races.

During the first lap of the 1934 Isle of Man TT Lightweight Race, Syd Crabtree, the winner of the 1929 Lightweight Race and Continental Grand Prix competitor with wins in the Swiss, French and German Grand Prix's crashed in heavy hill fog on the Mountain Section of the course at Stonebreakers Hut and was killed. For the 1935 Isle of Man TT races two motorcycle-equipped Travelling Marshalls were employed to search for missing riders, particularly in poor weather conditions on the Mountain Section of the Course.

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