Pat Helsham
Record type: Motorsport Biographies
Biography: Mount – Velocette
Age 27, Pat Helsham is a Terminal foreman, of Kolonnawa, Ceylon. He started motor cycle racing after the war and has had many successes in his own country.
In 1949, for example, he was second in the unlimited class at the Ratmalana Circuit on a KSS Velocette, and later in the year, on the same course, won the Junior championship and put up the fastest time.
Hobbies: amateur radio and preparing and tuning racing motor cycles.
(TT Special, 5 June 1950, p.14.)
Nationality: Sri Lankan
Competed in
Race | Position | Time | Speed | Machine |
---|---|---|---|---|
1950 Junior TT | 57 | 3:35:16.00 | 73.62 | Velocette |