The man Jules holds up as chiefly responsible for his rapid career progression is not from his family, however he does have a famous motorsport surname. It’s a very close relationship and he is like my father of racing, it’s the best thing for me to have him.”. Jules excelled in his Jerez testing sessions with Ferrari over the winter, “My goal is to be in Formula 1, my dream is to be in Formula 1 also so for every driver it’s the same and I know it’s going be very difficult because there are only 20 drivers in F1, so you have to be really perfect and also I have to improve my English.” I reassure him that his English is more than fine. 23 juil. There's a collision and Jules' Dallara has speared off into the gravel trap. He even overtook Pastor Maldonado and Daniel Ricciardo on the first lap and finished P15. Latest News / Interview Jules Bianchi Q&A: It is always good to drive a Ferrari! The lead F3 ART Dallara-Mercedes has crashed and is now spread in pieces in the gravel trap as a plethora of medical and support vehicles descend upon the scene of the accident. This season sees Jules as team leader to three other drivers, so I float the idea that this focus of being number one might possibly be an unwelcome distraction. Later on, Jules will explain with a shrug belying the fact the he’d just walked away from a 120mph impact that “it’s normal, it’s racing,” but at the time I was concerned that he may have been injured after such a major off. This demonstration of formation driving was short lived however when Geronimi tried to squeeze Jules wide on the exit, with the ART driver refusing to give an inch, leading to a tangling of wheels. Dad still has the circuit so I still drive on it but just little rental karts, not Formula A, just to have fun with friends or my little brother as he is also racing.”. With a contract now signed with Ferrari, the future for Jules looks a red one. The nose-cone of the lead ART driver stalks Geronimi for a couple of laps, probing and trying to locate his weakness, before deciding the place to pounce into the uphill then downhill sweep of Paddock Hill Bend. To this idea and of his team mates he seems typically unflustered. Normally that’s the plan with my manager but we’ll see what will happen.”, 2010 will see the Frenchman race with ART again in GP2. Technically however, with his car fully alongside, Jules was within his rights to keep his foot down, a point I make back to him which he unsurprisingly agrees to, “Yes, so it’s normal, it’s racing.” As Jules sighs and reflects a little more on the incident, his ever maturing and calculating side comes through as he explains to me that sometimes it’s perhaps best to step back and think of the big picture. F1 driver Jules Bianchi tries his hand at being an artist for the day when he attempts to draw his F1 Marussia car. An impressive and mature response from a head that lies on what are ultimately young shoulders. Despite being fastest in free practice, a mistake in Friday qualifying placed Jules in a poor grid slot of 16th, a difficult position to obtain any meaningful result at the best of times, and a problem magnified further by the twisty and short nature of the Brands Hatch Indy circuit. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. “Sometimes you have to realise ‘I’m slower, I have to stay behind’ and you have to be calm because you never know what will happen on the next lap. The following article was written in late 2009 after a day spent at Brands Hatch for the DTM/Euro F3 championships and then originally published on February 23rd 2010. "Bianchi is in a serious but stable condition," FIA spokesman Matteo Bonciani told The Associated Press in a phone interview. After a glittering karting career was wound up with a mountain of trophies at home, Jules had to decide how to best next move forward, ideally into single-seaters. We think he should probably stick to F1! 'You are my champion! Of Mauro’s influence Jules states, “Yes of course, he helps me sometimes, like he sends me messages at the races. He follows my every race and it’s really good to have him because he teaches me the technique of the car, because he was not just a driver but also an engineer. I believe I already know the answer to my follow-up question given his native language, ART’s connections with Todt and that they’re already his F3 team. We all have the same car so they [my team mates] are fast, plus they are rookies so if they’re faster it’s not good, so I just stay concentrated and make my results.”, I’m keen to shift things from the present tense to the future, so I ask him to elaborate on what will happen in 2010 once 2009 is dispensed with. 09 Jul 2014 Share Jules Bianchi was originally only meant to be driving for Marussia in the Silverstone test, but he received a late call from Ferrari following Kimi Raikkonen's heavy crash in Sunday's race. I met Charles more out of courtesy than interest, he made a good impression on me. And then I don’t work only with Ferrari! As Paul di Resta snatches DTM pole behind us, I want to get to know how to it all began for Jules, so I ask about his first forays into racing via karting. Now completely side by side, both cars under braking bravely pitch their cars into the scene of the 1976 British Grand Prix opening lap incident, Paddock Hill Bend, ready to claim another brace of victims. Then I started Formula A in karts, the top class, and I was an official Maranello team driver at 15 years old. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Once again, Bianchi was gridded P19 just less than a second away for Q2. Discover more of the Ferrari Driver Academy member’s ‘firsts’ in this exclusive interview, including crashes, kisses, cooking and more… About Jules Bianchi. I am aware that it’s all too easy to compare young drivers to established or past greats, though already Jules’ life and career has more than a vague resemblance and number of parallels to Michael Schumacher’s. We are in the same boat. Now his – and Felipe Massa’s – manager, Jules has nothing but glowing words for his fellow Frenchman. He was shown the double waved yellow flags because at this point Sutil’s car was in the process of being recovered. Their attention is soon snapped away though as an unassuming character in jeans, t-shirt and with an iPod wired into his ears walks purposely towards the ART truck. Now onto the interview! So at the moment F3 is very good, I have a lot of points, so we’ll see.”. Vader van Jules Bianchi geeft emotioneel interview . An excellent run out of the final corner allows Jules to claw in Geronimi, the Frenchman electing to dart to the left of the start and finish straight – the outside for the next corner – to pass his victim. Jules Bianchi scored the first points of his Formula One career earlier this year with a brilliant drive to ninth place in Monaco - rather apt considering the first Grand Prix the 25-year-old Frenchman ever attended as a child was in Monte Carlo. Coupled with a fundamentally quick and highly motivated driver like Jules, it becomes easy to see why he is waltzing away with the 2009 title. Maybe a driver will crash in front of you and you will finish P8 so tomorrow you will be P1 [due to reversed grids] so you just have to not be crazy on the track.”, Jules speaks with the author in the back of the ART truck. Find out what F1 Marussia driver Jules Bianchi likes and doesn't like. As he prepares to return to France, where he will convalesce, on behalf of everyone at Ferrari and his fans, we extend two fold wishes to Jules, for his birthday and for a speedy return to the track! We talk racing a little more, and he tells me his favourite driver of all time is Michael Schumacher and the most desirable road car in his mind is a Ferrari 599 GTB. Fascinated by the psychology of where a driver privately believes they are strongest, I ask which trait he would attribute as his most formidable. If he takes pole and makes even a tiny mistake, he won’t be happy. Expensive taste indeed, though with the rapid rate of his career ascension, I wouldn’t be surprised if he can write a personal cheque for one within a few years time. Car #1 of Jules Bianchi navigates Paddock Hill Bend at speed, “Good grief. Ferrari Jules Bianchi. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Discover (and save!) Then unfortunately it ended like that. And well I do fitness, football, running and also bicycles, karting. “Ah, yeah but it’s not perfect.”, When I offer that this interview would be going far slower and doubtless descend into an incomprehensible mess if conducted in French, he laughs once more and accepts it’s probably best we continue in English. 19 aug. 2016 . I was going out to have fun and for sure, it was a very good thing for me. In een interview met Minute-Auto.fr blikt Philippe Bianchi terug op het ongeluk van zijn zoon Jules tijdens de Grand Prix van Japan in 2014. Suzi Perry narrates a moving tribute to Jules Bianchi, who died nine months after suffering severe head injuries in a crash at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix. One of the attendees was Jules Bianchi and I had heard her name through the network of photographers, but had never met her. Part of Jules' success has been surrounding himself with the best engineers and management, “I think I am good at overtaking normally. As a leading 21st century racing driver, intelligent analysis and interpretation of the data plays a fundamental part of the makeup of a quick and successful driver. California. Entretien réalisé lors du tournage de l'émission RPM# au Circuit Paul Ricard, et à l'occasion des épreuves World Series by Renault 2012. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Interested to see how much further into the future a man who has only recently entered the third decade of his life has thought, I lean back and expansively ask where he ideally sees himself in five years time. “The best thing for me for sure was to have Nicolas Todt as my manager,” he first tells me, with notably more thought going into his words now to ensure he is fully respectful of his friend and manager. Bianchi replaced Luis Razia after Razia's contract got terminated. I have many drivers and no team has ever complained.”. Jules’ earlier reference to how he drove karts every day was no exaggeration. Jules and I understood each other immediately. Only a few people think like that!”, Charles Leclerc immediately captured the hearts of the fans, are you amazed? On this warm September afternoon I have the sole mandate of sitting down with France’s hottest racing property and current runaway Euro F3 leader Jules Bianchi for an exclusive interview. Another area a driver with aspirations of reaching the very top must master is that of pressure – pressure from team management, team mates, your adoring but expectant fans, the media and more. Friday, 16th April 2021 | Given a few years and on his own immense talent alone, I wouldn’t be surprised if a 599 GTB is not the only Ferrari Jules pilots in his career. It’s just racing and that’s all. Jul 20, 2015 - Explore EndevoryX's board "Jules Bianchi" on Pinterest. In a recent interview for corriere.it, Nicholas Todt, who manages Scuderia Ferrari Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc, reflects on Charles’ strengths, the 2020 F1 season and how he began working with Charles: Formule 1 / Nieuws. The Frenchman dips his visor and 'zones in' ahead of race one. I’ve quickly made my way over to Jules via almost being run over by Norbert Haug on a scooter in the DTM pits. I’m not surprised he enjoys this technical side. Jules Bianchi who had been just ahead of Sutil when the Sauber driver went off arrived back on the scene in his Marussia MR03 a lap later. One imagines the influence of his family and Todt have made him grounded and to not take his opportunity and situation lightly or for granted like many other drivers in the past have. The next day he skips race two, smartly choosing to preserve his body for the next event. As an interesting aside and an example of how interconnected motor racing can be, Pedro Rodriguez won the 1968 Le Mans 24 Hours race in a Gulf Ford GT-40 paired with Jules’ now deceased great-uncle, Lucien Bianchi. His intensive fitness regime, liberal use of “for sure” and animated hand gestures all serve to underline that he is very much a modern racing driver. Fortunately, both drivers were eventually alert and well, so when I found Jules soon after, I first queried whether his style as an aggressive driver in karting had been adjusted for his car racing career, even if the answer based on the evidence I’d just seen was likely to be a resounding no. As the words leave my mouth I realise how much of a job interview question it sounded, with Jules reacting like a nervous job candidate by umm’ing and ahh’ing before replying. He shortly afterwards pops out to see me and confirm he’s still happy to speak after the race and we part ways as I retire to the DTM paddock to attain the best vantage point for the race. Perhaps reminiscent of a certain 7- times world champion…. I quickly become conscious of the fact that despite us both enjoying our chat, Jules walked away from a monumental accident less than 60 minutes ago, so I suggest we stop and that he gets some rest. Then we discovered that Luis Razia's deal had fallen through and that they now had Jules Bianchi as their driver and I went to interview him outside the back of their garage. Charles has never lost confidence. “You know, I started at 3, but at 3 to 13 it’s just for fun because you are young and you just want to have fun. On this warm September afternoon I have the sole mandate of sitting down with France’s hottest racing property and current runaway Euro F3 leader Jules Bianchi for an exclusive interview. The 20 year old has now changed into his jeans again and is casually lying back against the wall, freely offering his opinion and thoughts on any topic, insisting that he feels no more pain from the incident than a slightly sore back. InstaForex Loprais Team è il partecipante ufficiale al Rally Dakar. Two weeks earlier we had arranged to sit down after his first race to chat about life and racing, but the events that have explosively unfolded before my eyes may well have thrown those plans out of the window. So, I just wait and I am calmer now.”. Those around me drew breath as both cars miraculously negotiated much of the corner without touching one another. Pure Interview & Events. I helped him just as a favor to Jules, but he turned out to be amazing. Nicolas Todt: “For someone used to wanting to win, who has always progressed throughout his career, it is not easy to face such a situation. People forget that I was following Massa, who was not exactly favored in the fight with Alonso. "Bianchi is in a serious but stable condition," FIA spokesman Matteo Bonciani told The Associated Press in a phone interview. MODENA – 03/08/2010: The young French driver, who turns 21 today, is currently at the AEK Hospital in Budapest, after his accident in Race 1 of the GP2 event last Saturday at the Hungaroring, in which he suffered a fracture to a lumbar vertebra. Sensing there may be the potential for a rapid future brotherly pairing in motor racing not seen since Ricardo and Pedro Rodriguez, I ask if there’s a chance of two Bianchis making it in motorsport. Both he and Schumacher enjoyed the advantage of a Father who owned a karting circuit, with Jules openly admitting this was one positive aspect of his career development. Nicolas Todt: “It is ridiculous, it makes me smile. No other driver in the series receives half as much attention from the fans as Jules, it’s as if everyone subliminally knows the man from Nice is sooner rather than later destined for the summit of motor racing. Just take it step by step, be calm, realise I have time. 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