Are Marussia Wise to Run 1 Car at 2014 Russian GP in Tribute to Jules Bianchi?

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Published: October 10, 2014

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Formula One cars rarely look mournful, but the sight of the No. 17 MR03 in the Marussia garage at the Sochi Autodrom on Friday painted the most tragic of pictures.

The car of Jules Bianchi, the team's lead driver who suffered life-threatening injuries at Suzuka last weekend, is, according to Marussia's official website, "ready to race"—but will not turn a wheel this weekend, with the outfit opting to run only one car, that of Max Chilton, in the Russian Grand Prix.

Instead, it sits in silence, patiently waiting for its driver to return to the cockpit while the noise that comes with a typical F1 event reverberates all around it as the sport, with great reluctance, tries its best to operate as normal just five days after the Japanese Grand Prix.



The Marussia garage, an environment of such frantic activity on a normal weekend, has this weekend become a shrine: Bianchi's full name, as usual, is positioned above the garage, while his forename adorns its paneled walls as well as the headrest of the car itself.

And for this weekend, the hashtag, #JB17, has been added to the Marussia machines in tribute to the Frenchman.



The lengths that the team have gone to to pay pay their respects to Bianchi, whose future continues to lie in the balance, is deeply admirable, with the remaining 21 drivers set to be offered a reminder of how brutal and cruel this sport can sometimes be on every single occasion they pass the idle MR03 in the pit lane in Russia.

Marussia, as Bianchi's colleagues, can choose to honour their stricken star however they like, but is the decision to just run a solitary car this weekend the wisest move?

The timing of the team's statement—just 30 minutes ahead of the opening free practice session—implies that, as you would expect, they pondered long and hard before deciding that running Chilton alone was "the appropriate course of ac...
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