The father of F1 driver fitness, Willi Dungl, died of a heart attack recently aged 64. The Austrian is regarded as the man who first made racing drivers realise that a level of fitness approaching that of athletes would boost track performance. Dungl came to prominence when he helped Niki Lauda recover from his near death crash at the old Nurburgring in 1976. His legacy extended throughout the F1 paddock and for much of the Eighties it seemed that every team employed an Austrian trainer, who had graduated from the Dungl "school."