release dateMay 2019author Dr. Stephen Olveypublisher Evro Publishingpages 312isbn978-1910505397where to get itAmazon

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The unspoken question (and answer) of Rapid Response is this: Can auto racing ever be completely safe" And the answer is no, but the book’s author has made it his life’s work to try.

Rapid Response, My Inside Story as a Motor Racing Life-Saver is a memoir written by Dr. Stephen Olvey, the Medical Director for the Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) racing series in the U.S. from 1979 to 2003. Although still active in Motorsports, Dr. Olvey is also an associate professor of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Throughout his career, Dr. Olvey was among the first responders during track accidents and saved the life of F1 driver Alex Zanardi.
Blood Not Oil

Indeed, Rapid Response starts with a forward from Zanardi, thanking Dr. Olvey for doing his job and saving his life at a race in Germany in 2001. That was just one of those bad series of events. A cascade failure (to use the parlance) that had Dr. Olvey and his crew getting to Zanardi’s ...