9 years without Jules: the emotional comments of father Bianchi. Nine years ago, on July 17th, Jules Bianchi died at the hospital in Nice.

There are moments when the joy of sports must confront the everyday reality of life: one of these is when a 24-year-old loses his life pursuing his dream, and one can only wonder why fate can be so cruel. Nine years ago, on July 17th, Ferrari junior Jules Bianchi died at the hospital in Nice, after almost ten months in a coma. A bolt from the blue in what was considered a safe sport, more than twenty years after the terrible weekend at the Imola circuit in 1994. A death remembered too little and from which it seems nothing has been learned given some questionable choices by race direction in terms of safety.

And while Formula 1 goes on as if nothing happened, the pain weighs on those left behind; on a father who did not believe that his son’s hobby would lead to his death, on a parent who silently fights to remember someone who did not die a champion, and therefore apparently does not deserve the colored curbs on every track. “Nine years ago you finally freed yourself from the body that held you prisoner. Today you live on the other side but you are always close to us. I will love you forever and I miss you so much. Thanks to those who will remember him today,” wrote Philippe Bianchi on Instagram, accompanying a photo of a hug after the Monaco Grand Prix.