Ecclestone: ‘Bianchi family right to come’

Jules Bianchi
30 July 2015 by    1 min read

Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone says that it was right to invite Jules Bianchi’s family to the Hungarian Grand Prix in the wake of his tragic death.

The Frenchman died two weeks ago nine months after suffering a major crash at the Japanese Grand Prix.

His close family and friends were invited to the track, where the current drivers gathered to remember him.

Ecclestone told Motorsport.com:  "I thought they should be here. I said if you fall off a horse you want to get back on again, you don't want to stop riding horses. I said to his father, you like F1."

Bianchi became the forst F1 driver to die as a result of injuries suffered on track since Ayrton Senna at Imola in 1994.

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