Jules Lucien André Bianchi (3 August 1989 – 17 July 2015) was a French motor racing driver who drove for the Marussia F1 Team in the FIA Formula One World Championship. Bianchi had previously raced in Formula Renault 3. 5, GP2 and Formula Three and was a Ferrari Driver Academy member. He entered Formula One as a practice driver in 2012 for Sahara Force India. In 2013, he made his debut driving for Marussia, finishing 15th in his opening race in Australia and ended the season in 19th position without having scored any points. In the 2014 season, he scored both his and Marussia team’s first points in Formula One at the Monaco Grand Prix. On 5 October 2014, during the Japanese
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Jules Lucien André Bianchi (3 August 1989 – 17 July 2015) was a French motor racing driver who drove for the Marussia F1 Team in the FIA Formula One World Championship. Bianchi had previously raced in Formula Renault 3. 5, GP2 and Formula Three and was a Ferrari Driver Academy member. He entered Formula One as a practice driver in 2012 for Sahara Force India. In 2013, he made his debut driving for Marussia, finishing 15th in his opening race in Australia and ended the season in 19th position without having scored any points. In the 2014 season, he scored both his and Marussia team’s first points in Formula One at the Monaco Grand Prix. On 5 October 2014, during the Japanese Grand Prix, Bianchi lost control of his Marussia in very wet conditions and collided with a recovery vehicle, suffering a diffuse axonal injury. He underwent emergency surgery and was placed into an induced coma, and remained comatose until his death in July 2015. He was the first Formula One driver to die as a result of an F1 racing accident since Ayrton Senna’s death at the May 1994 San Marino Grand Prix in 1994. He had been the godfather of current Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc, and had been in a long-term relationship with his French girlfriend, Camille Marchetti. He also had a German girlfriend, Gina, who had moved to Nice.
He is the grandson of Mauro Bianchi, who competed in GT racing during the 1960s and three non-championship Formula One Grands Prix in 1961. His grandnephew was Luciens Bianchi , who won the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans, before dying during Le Mans testing the following year. His favourite racing driver was Michael Schumacher. In 2007 he left karting and raced in French Formula Renault 2. 0 for SG Formula, where he finished as champion with five wins. In 2008 Bianchi won the Masters of Formula 3 at Zolder, and also finished third in the 2008 Formula 3 Euro Series season. He continued in the F3 Euroseries in 2009, leading ART’s line-up along with rookie team-mates Valtteri Bottas, Esteban Gutiérrez and Adrien Tambay. In 2011 he starred in the first two rounds of the 2011 GP2 Asia Series, holding off Romain Grosjean and Luca Filippi. In 2012 Bianchi opted to switch to the Formula Renault 5 Series for his one-off appearance in the drivers’ championship. He finished fourth in the main series, taking two pole positions and a number of points positions before he was injured in a first-lap crash at the Hungaroring. With eight wins, he sealed the title with a round to spare, at Dijon-Prenois. He then added a ninth win at the final round at Hockenheim.
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