The fate of Jules Bianchi, disappeared on July 17th, 2015 after nine months of agony from the terrible accident at Suzuka it's still a hard thing to swallow. Flew away too early to say "goodbye", and too late to say "stay". Because his fate, in hindsight, could have been avoided. So, in the end, when the calendar marks this sad anniversary every year, we feel small, helpless. We feel increasingly indebted to this boy, who had no future but whose history has profoundly marked the future of this sport, and of his security. Jules Bianchi is gone leaving a wound too big to heal, healed by so much love for those who love and loved him, as he did until the end.
In the eyes of Charles Leclerc
Philippe Bianchi, father of Jules, cuddles Charles Leclerc shares each of his successes, bringing it closer to the memory of Jules. He does it with all the other members of the Leclerc family, with the infinite sweetness of a father who has a great regret, that of not having been able to support his son. In those two families so united by happiness as by pain there remains a lot of bitterness but also a deep feeling. Charles' destiny was profoundly marked by this acquaintance, which began on a kart track in Brignoles - when Charles was just taller than Jules' hip - and reached the gates of Maranello, the true measure for both.
"Once, during an interview, I mistakenly called Charles “Jules”. I turned fiery red and apologized profusely. He said: "Why do you apologize? That's the best compliment I could ever receive". Charles and Jules, as the reporter sweetly recalls Natalie Pinkham in this anecdote shared today on Twitterthey were one. Bound by fate and by friendships that would turn into a deep bond, beyond everything. As a child, behind every step of Charles, there was Jules.
The arrival at Ferrari
The fate of Charles and Jules has intertwined to take the form of an ever-present shadow in the life of the Monegasque and of those who have had to endure an even greater pain, the one for which there are no words, namely the death of a son. Father Philippe. Best friend of Charles' dad, Hervé, who also disappeared before his time, but for whom Charles even told a big lie.
She told him she signed up for the Ferrari from 2019, a risky preview of Charles' future, granted by the bitter circumstances of the last difficult days that would have torn him forever from his dad. “To give him one last satisfaction, I told him that I had signed, not for 2018 but for 2019. Obviously I hadn't, but I promised myself that I would give everything to achieve this goal. I remember the tears in his eyes. Since that day I have carried with me a remorse. Then, when I actually signed, it was the first thing I thought about: I didn't lie that day." recalls Charles.
Jules' legacy
From the beginning that little man with a thoughtful look and a very sweet smile catalysed the attention of Jules who took him under his wing, opening not only his heart but also all the doors he had available to let that young man arrive little boy to his biggest dream, that maybe one day he would see them together on the grid. Charles followed the path that Jules should have followed, as Bianchi's father, Philippe, also underlined more often. A journey that he made thanks to him and for him, an older brother who left him a great legacy sports or not, with lessons that cannot be learned on the track.
In the years of his growth, Charles had to live with other bereavements that deeply marked him but also spurred him on to the remote possibility of abandoning everything. "I just wondered what my father would have wanted me to do. I owe everything to him and so I run. The only aspect I felt guilty about is putting the deaths of my father and a friend of mine aside in my head. But that was only for a couple of hours. It is very difficult to see that people you loved are gone because of the sport you adorebut I can't help it. I've been programmed to race since I was young, I can't do anything else, I'm only good at driving. "
The good, polite soul remained but the gaze became increasingly melancholy, the armor even harder. Which allows him to put on the helmet and lower the visor without seeing the ghosts of his past again. A moment in which for a moment, he alienates himself from the world and from the pain that accompanies him in this mad rush towards the goal that he, who knows how many times, he has talked about with Jules. Get to the world title.
Source statements: FormulaPassion
