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Reaction to death of Jules Bianchi

  French president Francois Hollande led the flood of tributes to Jules Bianchi, the Formula 1 driver who has died nine months after a horror crash at the Japanese Grand Prix. 'French motorsport has lost one of its greatest hopes,' Hollande wrote in a statement following news of Bianchi's death aged 25 on Friday night at a hospital in Nice. 'My thoughts are with his parents, his family and his friends.' Bianchi tragically became the first driver to perish in a F1 Grand Prix since Ayrton Senna died at San Marino in 1994. Over two decades on Senna's arch rival, four-time world champion Alain Prost, paid his own tribute to Bianchi. 'We will always remember Jules. Fond thoughts for his...
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