Thanks for all the kind words. As a very ummm verbose person, I had a blast. Was very anxious about seeing myself on video (like when you hear your own voice, I thought, only worse) but damn Mario has done an amazing job. Bernie has been nothing but supportive of me, from the beginning right to the end. I had the privilege of meeting him initially thru Sid, but even after, he always listened to me when I needed him. I have the deepest respect appreciation and love for him. A wonderful guy.

Thanks for the comments. I had a great time with Gary - we just talked for two and a half hours about a sport we both care about deeply... and recorded it on three cameras. We need more people sharing their stories with us.

The start is incredible. When the lights go out, between the heat and the dust and their exhausts, it gets a bit hard to see, and we see nothing of the action up front. But when bits (or cars) go flying, we know there might be some work. And then, because of how fast they are, it's the loneliest lap of the weekend, pushing to get around before they catch us on their 2nd lap (usually 25 sec ahead when we get back to standby), listening to race control and watching for flags for what's ahead.

Spa 1998 was quite impressive. As we passed the end of the pit garages we saw all the marshalls in the "triangle" inside La Source grabbing extinguishers and running. As we rounded the corner, it was like a war zone. We switched into "mass casualty mode" and tiptoed the car thru all the wreckage, visually evaluating to estimate how many casualties we had. Turned out, none. Rubens had a glob of what looked like clotted blood on the OUTSIDE of his helmet, turned out it was red paint from the tires

Love that he is still smoking the cigars. He really was Sid's protégé!

Good one Gary. Motor sport brings the best & worst out of people. The 'important people' you talk about use us as expendable chess pieces. Wish I could find a successor as loyal as yourself. Best to let go of the negatives - betrayal, disappointment, etc. Be proud of the positives - friends, achievements, etc. Take care, Dr Carl

"Is the car on fire"....I loved that LOL!!!! Man, I thought I was listening to a rock star interview, so direct and honest. Kept thinking of Pete Townshend. What a smokin' interview.

Yes we were first on scene at Felipe's accident. Couldn't understand the mechanism when we got there, but just took care of the him. Pretty scary at first.

Fantastic interview! As an Orthopaedic surgical trainee in Australia and a huge fan of motorsports in general and F1 in particular since my childhood in the UK, it's hugely interesting to hear your story. It's crazy what has happened in the last few years that you describe. It's like the FIA don't know what they are doing.

Many thanks Gary for having integrity for the doing this interview. I lost a good friend in a motor racing accident so I completely understand your reasons and support you 100%. Sadly some people don't understand or 'get' what Bernie has done for 'our' sport - their loss not ours, as far as I'm concerned. Thanks also to Mario also for doing this interview and posting it.

This is absolutely amazing stuff to learn about. Formula 1 is, of course, an unbelievably political sport, but politics and safety are two things which shouldn't mix, and tremendously skilled personnel shouldn't lose their jobs over personal disagreements. This interview has shed much light on the inner workings of the FIA as well as the incredible people who work behind the scenes to ensure safety and wellness for drivers, teams, and spectators. Thank you for your service, Dr. Hartstein.

Thank you so much for the content!

This was actually so interesting, thanks for uploading.

What an eye opening interview. Great stuff.

What an incredibly intelligent interview - great insight ! Thank you to you both :)

Great interview! awesome doctor..

Excellent and compelling interview, thank you both.

Brilliant interview!

Can't tell you how grateful I am for you making this! Thank you

Absolutely fantastic interview, a big thank you to everyone involved. Even when you are very passionate and interested about something, like Formula One and Filmmaking in my case, it is sometimes very hard to get to the bottom of how things really are. I wondered what was really going on, especially after the Tweets. Thank you for sharing the story and also giving such a beautiful insight into the sport I love!

Truly a fantastic piece of work.

The 8 dislikes are from FIA peoples who didn't like him

What an incredible person.... I’m just speechless and thanking you guys for making this interview.

Amazing interview and great to here the thoughts and stories of Gary Hartstein. I'm sure there is lots that he won't tell people on video that would be a real eye opener into Motorsport and Formula 1 in particular. I would love to hear more from Gary in the future like this.

A wonderful video - thank you Gary for speaking your mind and Mario for making this video. Fascinating!

I've watched this interview three times now. Gets better with every viewing. Remarkable perspective on the greatest sport their is.

Fascinating video. Thank you !

Great work! Really enjoyed it!

A really interesting interview. So nice that someone is willing to share their experience.

Great stuff! Thank you!

Excellent Interview ! I've been a Formula 1 fan since 1964. Thank you Dr Hartstein for having the integrity to speak up and do the right thing. From all I've read about Mr. Todt none of this came as a surprise.

Great interview and openly honest of you Gary. Thanks for the great insight.

Huge respect to Dr. Hartstein. Thank you for sharing this.

Gary, you're the man! After watching this, I really wish you were still in F1. Thanks for all your fastidious work in making F1 safer!

Another great video

@G_Hart Thank you so much for being so open, loquacious and ruddy honest. Good man. The Show still misses you.

Excellent work! I'd never heard of you, now i have!

OUTSTANDING!! Great Work Mario!

This is amazing. Thank you Gary, thank you Mario.

Well done. You have a talent for this type of video. As for the subject and topic it was very interesting. Now I'm going to watch your other videos.

Thank you for sharing a important piece of autosport history.

What a man. Very conscientious and talks openly. He was a worthy successor to Dr. Watkins. I don't know if the same can be said about this new Medical Delegate.

Gary's medical briefings on day 1 one of the real highlights of the GPs. Love his suggestion to have a mic in the medical car!

What an absolutely amazing interview. Gary, opening up about everything that happened was the right thing to do. If anything, it may help open up the eyes of those who follow you and prepare them better for how to deal with the politics of F1. Amazing.... I can't believe I'm typing about politics concerning the MEDICAL staff. There's still so much that stinks in this sport we all love...

Wow, amazing story. You did a great job Gary and thanks for sharing. I can only dream what it would be like sitting at the starting line behind all the F1 cars. The best part is how you would fall asleep for a few min after the start.

My compliments. Really great interview. Thank you. Greetings, Duurt. ( @Formula1extra )

Found this on FormulaReddit. Great interview!

Very inspiring.

Your videos are great ! This sport is my passion , thank you for sharing all this ! ( Sorry for my bad English , I'm a belgian student

I truly enjoyed watching this, Gary. It's so sad to see that you're not a part of the sport anymore.

This is so interesting. Thank you very much. I love F1 and spent time with Jarno Trulli. Incredible people throughout F1.

Amazing interview, finally we can hear some inside stories about dr.Sid and about their job and role in general. PS Good that he didn’t work with Sid in Imola 1994 :(

Thanks for the reminder of this controversial and perhaps telling episode.loved the quote. That one will stay with me.!

Absolutely facinating interview with @former_f1doc. The love for the sport is clear.

How could 1 person not find this likeable?

This is one of the best F1 documentaries I've ever seen! I got the link to this from Joe Sawards blog.

“Race control to Medical Car, is the car on fire?” 🤪😱😭🤣😂😭😭

I hope that this video gets millions of views, so that people can see what the FIA is like.

Brilliant interview giving an honest insight into F1 and how it has grown as a result of the great work by honest people like Sid and Gary. How he was treated is a disgrace, but as anyone who knows F1 realises the politics game that is played out 24/7- also no suprises about John 'Toad Face' Todt. Great video - Thank You :)

This is a FASCINATING interview!!! Who IS this guy, this medico? He's the best! He's like the motorsports version of a doctor i knew from pro cycling!!! lol...

Gary: thank you for sharing this. Amazing how the F1 world is comfortable with putting an unexperienced guy as director of medical facilities at all the races. Helps you to understand the power structures that drivers (and teams) acquiesced to the situation without demanding someone with experience. Nepotism writ large at the expense of other people's safety. Greta job you did: shame you got shafted in the end.

Wow! This is good! To begin with I thought "I'll watch a couple of minutes of this". I ended up watching all of it. Gripping stuff. You SHOULD write a book Dr H. I think even non-motorsport fans would appreciate a story of how politics get in the way of so many advances.

Brilliant interview. I have to say I wasn't aware of the causes that led to Mr Hartstein's departure from F1 and after watching this interview all I can say is wow, there are some really shameful people occupying top positions at the FIA. I always thought that Ari Vatanen would've been the best choice for the FIA presidency, but alas.

Very revealing interview, seems like a great guy who showed initiative, was a team player and did a top dollar job and was unfairly and in my opinion, disappointingly sidelined then let go because of prejudice and bad management in the FIA

Thanks Jean. Remember the famous disappearing Ti16?

Well, I think sadness isn't on for me. There are people and places I miss, but I'm going to be around for a while, and those people and those places will be around too. And motorsport will also be around for a while. Things change. 16 years is a good run. I'm happy and fit and I have my eyes and ears open.

Really interesting to hear your story Gary, and how far you could get. And i'm very sorry for how it ended for you. I understand that comercial interests are prevailing more and more every year in Formula One, and as medical student and F1 fan, that just makes me sad. Seems to me that today, the only one to keeping it up is Mr. Ecclestone. Hope he can keep for many years yet. Just for curiosity, were you that first doctor to reach Massa at his accident in Hungary 2009?

Killer. Loved it.

A book would be good Gary

Now I understand all the un-safety absurds seen last season, which ended in Jules Bianchi's "accident". Which I wouldn't call accident because it was complete and absoluely avoidable, and what's worse, it could have happened months before. Let's remember the German GP. First, the crane pulling Kvyat's car, then, some car (sauber I think) in the middle of the main straight, waiting for marshalls come from across the track!!! I didn't see most of the season, but I've seen nonsense everywhere. And now Alonso's "accident", which is being treated rather irresponsably by the team, the FIA and everything. Now I get to understand everything, finally.

Very good interview,i think Bahrain was the catalyst for his sacking. Bernie and the FIA want people who fall in to line when asked,Gary wasn't one of those people,his moral conscience outweighing the need to be subservient. All the best Gary.

Great interview, i am so sorry it had to end this way. The fans will not forget you, Gary. To bad Jean Balestre errrr Todt doesn't see what you did for the sport. Looks like with everything going the way it is with the FIA involved lately F1 is going backwards oh about 25 years.

MARIO your vids a great

I’d pay this guy any amount of money to sing happy happy joy joy

Just out of sheer curiosity, what was it like being a part of those big first lap crashes like Belgium and Canada '98 or the 2006 USGP and seeing all the carnage unfold in front of you or seeing the aftermath after coming around the corner? I would imagine that would have to be an absolutely stunning sight.

Amazing how FIA politics and power plays will even affect driver safety. I wish you all the best Gary and thank you for your years of service making F1 a safer sport.

Dr. Hartstein was right so many times. Maybe he could have been more patient, and less noticeable. But he was qualified for the job and the best successor to the Prof's legacy. The FIA's loss, I suppose. I imagine there's a book coming from this...

Great interview and it’s such a shame “safety” apparently seems to be taking a back seat to politics… you’d think F1 teams would not be taking this lightly for obvious reasons.

I can answer straight off why things didn't happen, towards the end. Motor sport, aviation, criminal justice - these are all reactive environments based on the theory of risk that says "nothing bad has happened so far, anything we do might make things worse, so we'll only fix things after an outright disaster". This is not how scientists or engineers think. At this point, all the laws of physics that are likely to make a difference are fairly well understood. You have to apply the Scientific Method to test ideas and you have to understand that it is the system that matters, not just one piece, but all that is very elementary stuff. I can't speak for neurosurgeons (Sid Watkins) or anaesthetists (Gary Hartstein) but it sounds similar enough in concept that I'm satisfied they used appropriate methodologies and produced highly desirable plans of action. But political organizations aren't predictive, proactive or experimental, by nature. These aren't people with that sort of background. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is the maxim, where "broke" is entirely defined by actual past concrete examples of being utterly broken. Partial examples and guaranteed future examples aren't considered broken. The rest should be obvious. Those differences in philosophy can't compete forever and he who pays the piper calls the tune. I'm sure we can all think of examples of what happens next, there's no shortage of examples in every modern industry. Formula 1 and the FIA are, therefore, very normal. Idiotic, but normal. The office politics aren't any different from those in the FAA, NASA or in most IT departments. The specifics, therefore, are of no consequence. The disease within politics transcends any example or set of examples. You can't fix F1 until you can fix stupid.

Fascinating interview but quite disturbing especially as some of the current drivers seem to have little brain when it comes to their own driving standards.

This interview is from 2013...I saw where he was obsessed with bashing President Trump...and he got a lot of criticism for that. Last I heard, he had moved to Dubai and had closed some (all?) of his blogs, social media, etc. Not sure why Formula One did not renew his contract....but, Professor Sid was a tough act to follow...and I don't get the impression that Hartstein plays the political games very well, something Sid was good at.

Gary is referred to in the description as Dr Gary Hartstein, MD, which is redundant. It's basically calling him a doctor twice.

+Ignacio Aguirre Unfortunately, it takes something bad to realize that someone is right.

Very interesting interview, Gary seems like an honest and nice fella. Nice French accent too. Such a shame Jean Todt is Jean Todt... Never liked him.

Very interesting. Never have liked Todt, not surprised he's not decent dealing with people.

wow was this ever good!

Gary's blog if any are interested..... formerf1doc.wordpress.com/ A very good read indeed. The F.I.A. really screwed up dismissing this guy. He was the natural successor to Sid. We all knew it though that as soon as Todt got in the old school nepotism of the old school F.I.A. would return.

Gary, hi after watching the video I'm seriously angry, i lost all the respect i had to the FIA, i mean how can they fire you in 2008 and put that dude who never went to a race,i mean you have so much experience working in motor sport,you worked with arguably the best doctor of all time. I mean i fail to understand how an organization like that can be so irresponsible with the safety of the sport. Maybe come to America and work for IndyCar or NASCAR. Anyways this video was amazing great interview

Surprised it wasnt from Paris..

An all-too-typical story of a committed individual victimized by executive egotism and corporate intrigue. The good doctor should have been commended for his efforts and retained.

Very sad what the FIA is still trying to

12:30 xD

The Bianchi accident was coming for years, when they put those damn diggers in the firing line, you knew shit was coming. It just took till 2014.

This whole situation always smelled of a rat to me. How can a Todt have changed soooo much from what he used to be. He was always a tough man but never so cold and crass. I just hope that F1 does not suffer and major incident under the supervision of the current medical staff, because I'm not so sure they'd be as prepared as you Gary. At the very least they should have retained your services to help proper;y train the new heads of the medical division in F1 over the course of a season or two. GL

All I can see it came from Sweden.

Jean Tot ce shit

Always disliked Jean Todt.

Funny seeing the doctor smoking