The father of Formula 1 star Jules Bianchi has said it is still “excessively troublesome, making it impossible to watch the game, as the one-year anniversary of his child’s lethal accident at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix approaches.
Philippe Bianchi told BBC Sport: “Perhaps in a few months, a few years, I can see again a grand prix, I don’t know, but for the moment, it is too difficult.”
F1 comes back to the Suzuka circuit this weekend surprisingly since the 25-year-old French driver endured serious head wounds when his Marussia car slipped off the wet track in poor light and slammed into a recuperation crane last October. Bianchi turned into the first F1 driver to succumb to wounds maintained in a stupendous prix since Ayrton Senna in 1994 when he passed on in healing center in France in July having never recaptured awareness.
His father said, “It’s a difficult moment because it marks one year now that Jules had his crash, and this week is not a good week for the Bianchi family. Jules is missed a lot by all his family, all the fans, all his friends, it is very difficult. “When the months pass and you see Jules every day the same and you understand at that moment that it’s not possible for him to come back because the damage is too important. The problem when Jules had this crash, I think that his head and his brain were finished, because he had too much damage in his brain. You have two things – the neurological and the physical – and Jules had a very big physical presence, and I think he stayed in life because physically he is very strong. I think that Jules is with me now but it’s difficult because he phoned me and his mother every day, and now it is one year that I can’t speak with Jules and his mother can’t speak with him. And for nine months I can’t touch him and can’t give him a kiss. But Jules was a very good boy, he was very near his family, and it’s terrible.” He further added, Perhaps. For me it is strange when some people say he goes too fast, because he is a Formula 1 driver.
“I don’t know what happened because for the moment I don’t want to see the video of the incident. Perhaps in one month, two months, six months, I don’t know. I can’t see pictures of the crash of Jules. It’s not possible for me to say something about the crash because it’s too difficult for me to look at the video.”
