Jules Bianchi: Remembering a Racer and an Inspiration

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Published: July 18, 2015

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Formula One has lost a bright, young light. Jules Bianchi died on July 17 in his hometown of Nice, France, from the severe head injuries he suffered at last year's Japanese Grand Prix.

"Jules fought right to the very end, as he always did, but today his battle came to an end," his family said in a statement.

That fighting spirit was on full display during the 2014 Monaco Grand Prix, the high point of Bianchi's F1 career. Driving for Marussia (now Manor) just 20 kilometres down the coast from Nice, Bianchi executed a bold pass on Caterham's Kamui Kobayashi into Rascasse, securing a ninth-place finish and his team's first points in more than four years of racing.

"It was a mega move—you don't get many chances around there," team principal John Booth told Bleacher Report two weeks later. At the time, though, no one knew just how important those two points would be.



Marussia ran into financial troubles at the end of last season and appeared finished in F1 when their assets were auctioned off over the winter. But that Monaco finish and the prize money that came with it inspired new investors to take over the team, and they were resurrected this year as Manor.

"Without him, without those two points he got in Monaco last year, we would not be here," Booth told Auto Hebdo (h/t ESPN F1).

Bianchi's legacy will live on in the team he saved.

Three hundred and sixty. That is the number of grands prix between San Marino in 1994 and Japan in 2014. Twenty years between Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna's deaths at Imola and Bianchi's ultimately fatal crash at Suzuka.

But no matter how many safety innovations the sport makes, it will always retain some elements of danger. 



In fact, Bianchi's crash was Marussia's second tragedy in a year. Their test driver Maria de Villota died in October 2013 from injuries suffered in a crash d...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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