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2ndMoparMan
July 17th, 2015, 06:00 PM
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-18/f1-driver-jules-bianchi-dies/6630430

Sad, sad thing to hear.

Godson
July 17th, 2015, 07:26 PM
Coming from a medical professional, better to have died than continued on with the life that was a head of him.

Freude am Fahren
July 17th, 2015, 07:45 PM
Very sad, but I think we knew it was coming, and like you said, probably best get it over with, to be blunt.

Also, technically the first F1 death since Senna.

Tom Servo
July 17th, 2015, 09:26 PM
So sad...RIP Jules.

Mr Wonder
July 18th, 2015, 06:00 AM
Shitty news, but sadly probably for the best. :(

overpowered
July 18th, 2015, 02:39 PM
Very sad but not surprising. That was one of the worst crashes I've ever seen. I'm amazed he lasted this long.

MR2 Fan
July 18th, 2015, 03:44 PM
Very sad, but I think we knew it was coming, and like you said, probably best get it over with, to be blunt.

Also, technically the first F1 death since Senna.

agreed, technically it is, but also a freak accident (more than the others IMO).

I'm not sure if this would increase the push for an enclosed cockpit now or not

The359
July 18th, 2015, 07:17 PM
The FIA accident report concluded that a closed cockpit would not likely have prevented injury to Bianchi.

Random
July 18th, 2015, 07:44 PM
Of course it did.

Fogelhund
July 20th, 2015, 06:29 AM
Sad to hear of his death, but this story is just weird.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/120039

Why are they honouring Bianchi in this manner, yet none who came before him. It is just a strange precedent and message.

Kchrpm
July 20th, 2015, 07:08 AM
My only guess is that they feel that they are in a new era now, where before potential death was considered an accepted hazard, but now they want to establish that it isn't, shouldn't be, and won't be.

That's the only reason I can think of, aside from the somewhat morbid admission that if they did it for every driver that died during F1 activities previously, there would be very few numbers left.

Oh, wait. Didn't they used to have numbers assigned to/selected by the manufacturers, and just in the last year or so they switched to numbers being assigned to drivers that stay with them their whole career? Perhaps that's another reason.

IMOA
July 20th, 2015, 07:20 AM
It's quite simple, last year was the first year in F1 where drivers had their own numbers. Previously there was some different systems of assigning numbers but all of those systems assigned pairs or numbers to teams so there wasn't a number to retire.

FaultyMario
July 20th, 2015, 10:51 AM
Here:


Motorsport governing body the FIA is retiring car number 17, which Bianchi carried last year, in his honour.

The FIA said: "As Formula 1 car numbers are now personally chosen by each driver, the FIA believes it to be an appropriate gesture to retire Jules Bianchi's number 17.

"As a result, this number can no longer be used for a car competing in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship."

Freude am Fahren
July 21st, 2015, 08:30 AM
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/1350498500753866057.jpg

XHawkeye
July 21st, 2015, 05:46 PM
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKbKXaqWIAAsCqh.jpg:large

Si queréis saber más del entierro de Jules #Bianchi seguid a @jjclement37 que esta allí.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKbm3-HWoAAMdDQ.jpg:large

A beautiful picture from @vladimirrys of Jules Bianchi. #CiaoJules #JB17 #RIPJules