Formula One driver Jules Bianchi dies, aged 25
MANOR team principal John Booth said Jules Bianchi “has left an indelible mark on all our lives” after the French driver died from horrific head injuries he sustained at last year’s Japanese Grand Prix.
Bianchi, 25, suffered a traumatic brain injury and never regained consciousness after he lost control of his Marussia car in the rain-lashed race in Suzuka on 5 October and hit the side of a vehicle deployed to recover Adrian Sutil’s Sauber.
Bianchi, who was a member of Ferrari’s young driver academy and tipped to be a future world champion, becomes the first driver since the death of Ayrton Senna at the San Marino Grand Prix on 1 May, 1994 to succumb to injuries sustained at a Formula 1 race weekend.
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