Continuing on from Part I, Rik and I discuss the issues that a motorsport CMO deals with during and after an event and a little bit about the future development of the position.

Rik Hagen (ED and RFDS physician, CMO for WRC Rally Australia, the Australasian Safari Rally and former Deputy CMO for the Australian Formaul 1 GP) and I chat about how to become a CMO and how to prepare for a motorsport event.

Part two of my interview with Dr Terry Trammell. We discuss the implications of driver seating position on vertebral injury, co-operation between motorsport rescuers, engineers and regulators and we talk through an opening lap racing incident from the perspective of the chase medical car.

Dr. Terry Trammell (ICMS, FIA Institute) and I introduce a paper he wrote last year with Kathy Flint on spinal injury mechaninsms and design interventions on open-wheel, open cockpit race cars. We also discuss the value of real-time data gathering and motorsport injury registries.

At the recent International Rally of Queensland on the Sunshine Coast, Motorsport Safety and Rescue Co-ordinator Tony Harris and I discussed the logistics that go into providing a medical and rescue team at a motorsport event.

Luke Bennett is a Western Australia RFDS doctor with a Queensland critical care background, who has done a ton of work in motor sports. He's just finished a series of review papers for his Masters in Motorsports Medicine, the first of which explored the intricacies of exercise associated hyponatraemia. I asked him if he'd be happy to talk about it and record it as a podcast and, lucky me, he was. So here it is ...

This is a presentation that I gave at the FIA Annual General Assembly Medicine in Motor Sport Summit in Istanbul in December 2012. It explores some of the controversies with the trackside assessment of concussion and the decisions that influence return to competition; particularly as they apply to motor sports.