Ben Drinkwater

Career

While competing in the 1949 350cc Junior TT race, the first ever race of the new FIM World Championship, Drinkwater collided with a bank trying to avoid a fellow competitor near Cronk Bane farm, close to the 11th milestone marker post, and was killed. The distinctive South-bend corner on the Mountain Course near to the accident location was renamed "Drinkwater"s Bend" or the 11th Milestone.

Achievements

• After riding in the 1946 Manx Grand Prix, the first post-war event on the Snaefell Mountain Course, Ben Drinkwater returned to race in the 1947 Isle of Manitoba TT, finishing in third place in the controversial 1947 250 cc Lightweight TT race won by Manliff Barrington.