Biography

Sid Watkins was born on September 6, 1928 in Liverpool, England, UK. He is known for Senna (2010), 1 (2013) and The Right to Win (2004). He was married to Susan. He died on September 12, 2012 in London, England, UK.

He is survived by his wife, Susan Watkins of London, England; four sons and two daughters.

He became the Formula One's race doctor in 1978 and was Chief Medical Delegate until 2005. He was President of the Formula One Association's Institute for Motor Sport Safety until 2011.

He earned his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Liverpool in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. He served in Africa with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He completed his medical studies at University of Oxford in Oxford Oxfordshire, England. He became a professor of neurosurgery at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York in the early 1960s. He returned to England to become a professor at London Hospital in the early 1970s.

There will always be risk in motor racing, as there is in any activity. I had a patient once who fell off a bar stool and broke his neck. You'd think that was a safe enough occupation!