F1: Jules Bianchi’s parents at his bedside – The Point

The parents of Jules Bianchi spent part of Wednesday morning with their son, three days after his terrible accident on Sunday the 42nd round of the Grand Prix of Japan. Philip and Christine Bianchi arrived Monday night in the hospital Yokkaichi after twenty-four-hour trip from Nice, the birthplace of Jules in the south of France. Doctors at the facility raised for them restrictions on visiting hours so they can spend as much time as possible with their son who is fighting for his life.

Nothing has filtered these moments spent with their son Jules, the third day of hospitalization in the intensive care unit of the Japanese hospital. Tuesday night (Japan time), the family did not hide the seriousness of his condition by announcing a severe brain injury. “Jules suffered diffuse axonal injury and is in critical but stable condition,” said the parents had in a statement by the Anglo-Russian team Marussia.

“diffuse axonal injury”

“Jules remains in intensive care,” at his bedside with Professor Saillant, president of the medical commission of the FIA ​​(Note: International Federation Automobile), which took care of Michael Schumacher and the Italian neurosurgeon Alessandro Frati, sent at the request of the Ferrari team had yet indicated the Bianchi family. Both doctors “met the medical staff responsible for Jules to have all the information about its state to counsel the family,” the statement said.

Behind the medical term “diffuse axonal injury”, that is to say an injury to the cerebral white matter is actually a severe form of brain injury Nice plaguing the young age of 25. A study by the University Hospital of Caen in France dating back to 2011, this kind of pathology often causes “serious physical and neurobehavioral sequelae.” The statement of the parents of Jules Bianchi confirms the alarmist about Bonciani Matteo, head of FIA press, who on Monday night had dropped to reporters at the hospital: “Understand, this is very, very serious . “

Anger Prost

The diffuse nature of the lesions could be an aggravating factor. “It’s annoying, because it means that the bleeding affect all functions of the brain,” explained to AFP Professor Jean-Luc Trowel, former Head of Neurology at the Foch Hospital in Suresnes (suburb Paris), told AFP in December 2013 He then spoke about another F1 driver, seven-time champion German Michael Schumacher world, victim the day before a skiing accident in the French Alps.

And while Jules Bianchi struggle for life, many questions remain about its accident when his Marussia came fit under aerial device stepped off a curve of the Suzuka circuit for discharging Sauber German Sutil, overrun in the previous round. Why the start of the race did he not put forward to avoid the torrential rains of Typhoon Phanfone? Why the race did she not been stopped earlier before the race conditions Dante? Why safety car is not entered the track to slow competitors still in the race right out of track Sutil? These are questions that still require detailed answers.

For the world champion four times the French Alain Prost, there has clearly been “a real mistake” on the part of the organizers of the race: “The entry of the crane without the regime’s car Security is totally unacceptable. (…) There is a fault, that’s clear. (…) We must simply denounce “insisted the former Ferrari driver. At the micro Europe 1, Alain Prost was also asked about what green flag waved by a race steward in the same curve, when the crane will: normally, the green flag “announcement that pilots track is clear. It should have been at least 100 meters away. (…) It is a mistake of the commissioner, “he had accused.

To go further: the rant of Prost, the video of the accident, the latest information, the first images of the accident, all of the reactions and the story of the race.