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This work offers the memoirs of Grand Prix’s on-track doctor, Professor Sid Watkins. If there is a crash, it is Watkins who gets there first. He is closely involved in improving safety at the circuits and in developing rapid response medical rescue.

Review: This books about his memoirs of Formula one in the 80’s and 90’s is a poignant account of a time during this sport where the drivers were slated like bad boys and many who tried to change the F1 race to a safer way of driving. integral in this is Ayrten Senna who died not because of poor driving he was a genius but due to mechanical errors such as oversteer and understeer which equates to a very bad car. IN Bologna Italy in Imola Ayrton was leading he had tried very hard to get the Pole position only at a safe corner the steering broke making the car uncontrollable and hitting the wall head on. Sadly this in affect meant the suspension shaft broke in such a way as to hit his helmet. 6″ higher or lower and he may have walked away. BUT at no fault at all of Sennas brilliant efforts. I cried every time i watch this must see DVD movie made by Universal and Working title. It is a most wrenching account and a very sad account of the fact that he played out his career at a time when the FIA head was Ballestrie and he was very close to Prost. Senna said he has been F….. over enough times. Senna was a very talented driver & I believe best of his generation and was cheated out of a 4th World Champ thanks to Bellestre.

A few years later the rules were changed favouring Senna’s action but it was too late for Senna. AS for the Williams team they knew they had a dud car and his life should not have been put at risks so litigation may have happened here. Personally the I felt a great deal of emotionfor Senna. He will be forever young and it was a pity he had not left a child of his own behind to carry on his genes. AS i said be prepared to see a great film with many extras all worth watching. i have viewed this dvd 10 times and I never am able to view it without shedding tears. I wish he had stayed with Ron Dennis at McLaren they cared about his welfare and had a family atmosphere which was lacking at Williams. Another subject striking is Alain Prost driving the Williams Renault car with many modification made to it being controlled by computers and all the drivers had to do was accelerate. Computers controlled wheels, suspension, tires etc. Is it a coincidence that as soon as Prost left Williams Bellestre banned cars controlled with all these modifications. Should some people feel some remorse & that is rightly so.

Eric Sidney Watkins OBE FRCS (6 September 1928 – 12 September 2012), commonly known within the Formula One fraternity as Professor Sid or simply Prof, was an English neurosurgeon. Born in Liverpool, Watkins enrolled at the University of Liverpool where he graduated in 1952. He later served four years in the Royal Army Medical Corps before specialising in neurosurgery in Oxford and later, in London. Watkins also acted as a race track doctor at weekends which he continued at Watkins Glen International when he was appointed a Professor of Neurosurgery at State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse.

At a meeting with Brabham team boss Bernie Ecclestone, he was offered the role as the FIA Formula One Safety and Medical Delegate, head of the Formula One on-track medical team, and first responder in case of a crash, a role which Watkins performed for 26 years. He helped to save the lives of many drivers including Gerhard Berger, Martin Donnelly, Érik Comas, Rubens Barrichello, Karl Wendlinger and Mika Häkkinen.

Watkins had two sons, Sid and Alistair and two daughters, Jessica and Martha. He also shared two stepsons, Matthew and Antony with his third wife Susan, a biographer and historian. He died on 12 September 2012 of a heart attack