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Grand Prix Masters may be all about seeing heroes from yesteryear racing wheel-to-wheel, but, behind the brand-new concept lies a lot of research, not least in the medical and physiological fields, for the consequences of cardiac arrest at 200 miles per hour are just too horrific to contemplate.
Steve Olvey may be a highly qualified medical specialist, but he is, first and foremost, a motorsport fan, with an interest going back to his childhood days in Indianapolis, where, at age six, he first became aware of his birth city's standing in the world of motor racing.
Five years later his father took him to see his first '500', and thereafter he was a regular in the stands until he spotted an advertisement on the local students' union bulletin board asking for medical students to volunteer for duty at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
