News Details

Hollande leads tributes to Bianchi

French president Francois Hollande led the flood of tributes on Saturday to Jules Bianchi, the Formula One driver who has died nine months after a horror crash at the Japanese Grand Prix. "French motorsport has lost one of its greatest hopes," Hollande wrote in a statement following news of Bianchi's death aged 25 on Friday night at a hospital in Nice. "My thoughts are with his parents, his family and his friends." Bianchi tragically became the first driver to perish in a F1 Grand Prix since Ayrton Senna died at San Marino in 1994. Over two decades on Senna's arch rival, four-time world champion Alain Prost, paid his own tribute to Bianchi. "We will always...
Full Story »
10y ago from SuperSport.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Tributes paid to Jules Bianchi 1989-2015

Tributes to Jules Bianchi are being paid by the motorsport community...
10y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Bianchi dies nine months after crash

French Formula One driver Jules Bianchi has died of critical head...
10y ago from SuperSport.com

Jules Bianchi passes away from crash injuries

Jules Bianchi has passed away nine months after suffering severe head...
10y ago from Crash.net

F1 pays respect to Bianchi on Twitter

The Formula 1 world has paid respect to Jules Bianchi after the Frenchman...
10y ago from PlanetF1.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Pato O'Ward issues damning verdict on ‘Mario...

Pato O'Ward isn't chasing F1 any more after falling out of love with...

IndyCar names officiating director ahead of Indy 500

IndyCar Officiating has announced Scot Elkins as the new Managing...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Real Madrid plot ambitious move for 110m-rated...

Gabriel Magalhaes has been one of the best defenders in the Premier League...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

'Might have to wait his turn' - Pundit asks Mikel...

Former Arsenal star Perry Groves has urged Mikel Arteta to keep Viktor...
1h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Arsenal & Chelsea handed chance to sign serial...

Bernardo Silva has been linked with a move away from Manchester City at...
3h ago from CaughtOffside.com

'I just want them to remind themselves where they are'...

Arsenal legend Patrick Vieira has urged the Gunners to remind themselves...
2h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.