Godson of Jules Bianchi Leclerc showed great maturity and courage to overcome those personal tragedies and add the F2 title to the F3 championship he had won in 2016. Leclerc was a godson of the late French racer Jules Bianchi, who died in 2015 after a 2014 crash at the Japanese Grand Prix, and won the 2017 Formula Two season while mourning his own father Herve. The Renault driver paid tribute to the Frenchman, who tragically died in July 2015 of injuries sustained at the previous year's Japanese Grand Prix, as he listed five drivers he considered the most underrated that he's raced with. It has officially been four years since the Frenchman died of injuries sustained at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix. Coming back to Bianchi, his godson, Charles LeClerc spoke of the impact Jules had on his life. His godson Leclerc, who was guided by Bianchi throughout his junior years, now competes for the Scuderia team, winning two races with it in 2019, along with eight further podiums and seven pole positions. Jules Lucien André Bianchi (born 3rd August 1989 in Nice, France) is a French Formula One driver currently driving for TRILUX AMG Precision Motorsport..

He is also the grandnephew of Lucien Bianchi, who made history in 1954 when he became the first F1 driver under the age of 20. Jules Lucien André Bianchi (French pronunciation: [ʒyl bjɑ̃ki]; 3 August 1989 – 17 July 2015) was a French motor racing driver who drove for the Marussia F1 Team in the FIA Formula One World Championship.. Bianchi had previously raced in Formula Renault 3.5, GP2 and Formula Three and was a Ferrari Driver Academy member. In this conversation.

Verified account Protected Tweets @; Suggested users Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said Leclerc, godson of late Ferrari protege Jules Bianchi, the last driver to be die from injuries sustained on an F1 race weekend, was the fitting winner. Jules Bianchi "would have been at a top team and a race-winner" in Formula 1 by this point in his career, Daniel Ricciardo believes. Bianchi seemed destined to drive for Ferrari at the time as was very impressive in his early years in Formula 1, until he tragically lost his life on the track in 2014.

Now, Leclerc has admitted that he never second-guessed his career choices in motorsport even in the wake of Bianchi’s death. He is the grandson of Mauro Bianchi, who was a successful racer in the 1960s. No - but the young Monaco driver is the godson of Jules Bianchi. As his godson and best friend, Leclerc is now doing what many thought Bianchi was destined to do; winning races for Ferrari. He was also godson to the former F1 driver Jules Bianchi, who died in July 2015 of head injuries sustained in a crash during the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix. Ricciardo says that if Bianchi was still alive, he is sure that he would be enjoying similar success to what Leclerc is currently experiencing.