Medical team coverage of motor sports events

Abstract

Sports medicine physicians treating race car drivers competing on the circuit are likely to encounter more than burns, contusions, and lacerations. Based on the author's 3-year experience as a member of a medical team on the motor sports circuit, this article outlines the various injuries and illnesses-of which are seen in family practice medicine-that these physicians can encounter in crew members and spectators, as well as race car drivers.