If there was a round of an admittedly niche motorsport-themed Family Fortunes centred on racing heroes with disabilities, there would be a few figures you’d immediately target for the highest points. The late Formula 1 team boss Frank Williams would probably be the first on most people’s lips and followed not long after by his 1999 driver Alex Zanardi, whose exploits as a BMW factory driver prior to a serious hand-cycling accident in 2020 have included high-profile outings in the Spa 24 Hours and DTM alongside a race-winning spell in the World Touring Car Championship.
That the pinnacle of Jason Watt’s achievement came in the Danish Touring Car Championship – and on the same weekend as Ferrari’s botched attempt at manufacturing a dead-heat in the 2002 United States Grand Prix – would perhaps make him a less lucrative points accumulator in our made-up TV show round, but the scale of his achievement is every bit as significant.
