Professor Sid Watkins was the sole doctor providing trackside rescue and medical care in Formula 1 during the 1970s and 1980s.

“so professor Watkins was appointed and employed by the FIA so the governing body of the sport Sid was doing all of the trackside rescue he was in the medical care which chases the first lap of the race and in those days he was kind of the only doctor around through the 70s and the 80s”