Tuesday, 14 October 2014

F1 - Marussia's Jules Bianchi will not give up - Father Philippe


Jules Bianchi who suffered severe head injuries when he collided with a recovery vehicle at the Japanese Grand Prix (Read here) still remains in a critical condition. His father Philippe believes the Marussia's driver will not give him. 
Speaking in an interview with Italian paper La Gazzetta dello Sport, Philippe said:
"The situation is desperate. Every time the telephone goes, we know it could be the hospital to tell us that Jules is dead. He will not give up, I'm sure of that. I can see it. I believe it. I speak to him. I know he can hear me. continue...


His doctors have told us that this is already a miracle, no one has ever survived such a serious accident. But Jules won't give-up. His trainer Andrea says that if there is one person who can make it happen, with his will, it's Jules. I've never seen anything like that. It touched us very deeply. We thank every one of them. So many of them have been in touch, written to me; Fernando Alonso, Jean-Eric Vergne, Felipe Massa have given strong messages. Hamilton wrote me a beautiful email in which he says that if there is anything he can do, he's there. Rossi and Marquez from Moto GP too.

I was very sad when he got hurt. I kept wondering, like everyone else 'Why don't they tell us more about how he is?' But now I'm in the same position I understand. Everyone keeps asking me how Jules is but I can't reply, there is no answer. It's very serious, but he's stable. One day he seems a bit better, other days bit worse. The doctors don't say. The damage from the accident is very bad but we don't know how it will evolve. Even with Schumacher it took months to come out of the coma. (FIA president) Jean Todt said he hopes Michael will one day be able to have normal life.

One day I hope we can say the same about Jules. It's tough. In a week the life of this family has been destroyed. What  are we doing here? Living a nightmare in a place very far from home. But when Jules get a bit better we can transfer him, maybe to Tokyo and things will be a bit easier. But who knows when that will happen. If it will happen. We have no certainties. We just have to wait."

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