GRAPHICS Adieu Jules Bianchi, the fatal accident – ANSA.it

The last to die of Formula 1 was Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian driver made legend by the fans, as well as from the successes won, which stopped running on the Imola circuit. It was May 1, 1994 and, since then, thanks to a number of revisions that have allowed substantial adjustments to the rules on the safety of the drivers, the dramatic chain of deaths in Formula 1 seemed to have broken. Other pilots had died, but not in the Grands Prix of Formula 1. From tonight death has started to go hand in hand with the Formula, after another boy with his face clean – like the Seine and many other ‘martyrs’ speed – which he loved being with his helmet and overalls, he’s gone forever.

His race, to be honest, it was interrupted on October 5 last year, on the track of Suzuka, Japan, when the Marussia (current Manor) who was driving had been crashed into a crane, entered the track to recover a crashed car. Since that time, the French White, 25, a young promise of moving car, a career that began in Maranello, not was awakened. His life had become like a flame that was weakened by the day.

Until tonight, when it is turned off forever. Bianchi went well to keep company with the other colleagues sacrificed on the altar of the goddess speed. Nine months in a coma, hope incessant and desperate relatives and friends, teammates and opponents, who clashed with the reality of a life that would not resume. A vain hope, supplanted by despair and mourning for a young life that goes away. After the incident to Bianchi, the FIA ​​has decided to strengthen security measures in the track, giving the green light to the virtual safety car, which forces drivers to slow down the pace in case of danger. Now there is also the re-start from a standstill on the grid after the entry of the safety car, as long as they have passed at least two laps from the green light and that missing more than five laps at the end of the race. But not only five Gp were advanced one hour to ensure greater visibility to the drivers with the departure of at least four hours before sunset.

The survey on the accident that claimed the lives of Bianchi led the International Federation motoring to blame the same rider causes of the accident: “He has not slowed enough to avoid losing control of the car”, one of the conclusions of the committee of experts to shed light on the dramatic clash between the ‘car and crane. A verdict that smacks of mockery, now really cruel.