To say the Hunt family has a legacy of poor health is no exaggeration. Formula 1 legend James Hunt died at 45 from a heart attack, when his son Freddie was just five.
Freddie’s paternal uncle also died of a heart attack around 55, as did his maternal grandfather, at 65. Meanwhile, Freddie’s mother, Sarah Lomax, also died tragically young with breast cancer aged 57, and another two of his uncles on his father’s side also died of cancer.
So it’s perhaps not surprising with his family history of truncated lives that Freddie, 35, now a racing driver like his father, had begun to wonder if he inherited more than just a passion for speed. Freddie admits that when he was younger he didn’t really think much about his health but the death of his mum in 2014 really hit him.
