FIA is Bianchi’s race number (17) no longer use

Posted on 21-07-2015 at 8:59 by Dizono – 33 Comments”

Out of respect for the deceased driver, according to FIA boss Jean Todt. A nice gesture, or they store it?

Since season 2014 may riders their own race number to determine. The last Friday died Jules Bianchi ‘chose’ for number 17. Those quotation marks are there for a reason, from a tweet from december 2013 shows that Bianchi prefer to 7, 27 or 77. These numbers, however, were awarded to, respectively, Kimi were times, Nico Hulkenberg and Valtteri Botas, said motorsport.com. The next closest thing found number 17 and thus be done.

After the tragic accident of Bianchi last year and his recent death, has the FIA the following statement on its website:

Jean Todt, President of the Fédération Internationale de l’automobile (FIA) announced that the car number 17 will be retired from the FIA Formula One World Championship in honour or Jules Bianchi.

Axis F1 car numbers are now personally chosen by each driver, the FIA believes it to be an appropriate gesture to retire Jules Bianchi’s number 17.

As a result, this number can no longer be used for a car competing in the FIA Formula One World Championship.

A nice gesture towards the survivors of Bianchi maybe, but shoot the FIA, it does not what? So drive Hulkenberg with the same number (27) that the car was where Gilles Villeneuve died in an accident and can also Senna’s number 2 as far as I know just chosen to be. Perhaps it has to do with the hashtag #JB17, which by many was used on Twitter after the death of Bianchi.