Helen Rollason Helen Rollason Helen Frances Rollason, MBE ("née" Grindley: 11 March 1956 – 9 August 1999) was a British sports journalist and television presenter, who in 1990 became the first female presenter of the BBC's sports programme "Grandstand". She was also a regular presenter of "Sport on Friday", and of the children's programme "Newsround" during the 1980s. Born in London, Rollason studied to become a PE teacher before entering radio broadcasting in 1980. After directing sport related content for Channel 4, where she helped to bring American football to British television, she anchored coverage of the 1987 World Student Games and
TT Grandstand wider pit-lane built on newly acquired land for the 1986 TT Races. The official TT regulations paddock diagram shows many public, technical and administrative areas developed into the Grandstand, including: The deceleration lane terminates in a hairpin turn-around loop in Nobles Park before leading back to the "winners enclosure" and "parc fermé", situated as part of the paddock complex, for all race finishers TT Grandstand The TT Grandstand including the startline, pit lane, re-fuellers, merchandising and scoreboard for the Isle of Man TT and Manx Grand Prix races is situated on the A2 Glencrutchery Road, in the town of Douglas,