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His brother and sister, Tom and Melanie Bianchi, arrived in Japan late Thursday and joined their parents, Philippe and Christine, at the hospital in Yokkaichi, where the driver was taken following pieces his crash in last Sunday s Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka . The 25-year-old pieces s Marussia hit a recovery truck which was preparing to remove Adrian Sutil s damaged Sauber.
At the track in Sochi, as if joining the Bianchi family in their vigil, the driver s car sat silent and immobile and strangely proud in the Marussia pieces garage, beneath his name. In the morning, shortly before practice, the team had decided to run only Max Chilton s car in Sunday s inaugural Russian Grand Prix.
And pieces then, in the afternoon, when the F1 cars had fallen silent pieces after practice, there was some good news. Or at least, there was an absence of more bad news, which in the anxious atmosphere sounded vaguely promising.
By a paradox, the luckiest people pieces were the drivers. Driving pieces around an unfamiliar pieces circuit at 200mph concentrates the mind like little else. McLaren s Jenson Button said: When we are in the car, we feel most at home. You get away from everything pieces else to go into your own little world. When you put the visor down it s the most peaceful place to be.
Most of us have been doing this since we were eight years old and it is something we love. Nothing will change with our families and friends because this is what we love doing, it s our job. This is where we feel most alive. We are trying pieces to tame a Formula pieces One car with 850 horsepower.
The Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton said: The whole sport is clouded right now because our thoughts are somewhere else. When you get into the car you switch into gear and think racing. It wouldn t be good for anyone to get in the car and thinking about anything else but getting themselves around the track.
The consultant Richard Cregan is expecting pieces crowd close to the capacity of 55,000. People were waiting to see if the race would happen but recently we ve seen ticket pieces sales of 600-800 a day, he said.
The Toro Rosso team principal, Franz Tost, struck a jarring note. There are always pieces negative critics, he said. We should be concentrated to do our job. We do Formula One. There are problems in Arabia, there are problems maybe in Brazil, there are problems in Europe as well. There are problems in China, there are problems in Russia. To be honest I don t care about this . The only thing I m interested in is that we have a fast car. The rest is politics. We are here for doing sport.
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