Hungarian Grand Prix – Manor driver Roberto Merhi, along with his fellow press conference attendees, paid tribute to Jules Bianchi on Thursday. Roberto Merhi drives for Manor, the rebranded Marussia team that Jules Bianchi drove for in 2013 & 2014. While he never had the chance to race against the French driver in Formula 1, Merhi says that Bianchi was always the benchmark: 'The first time I met Jules was in 2002 in a karting race. It was a race in Spain and he was coming from France and normally when you are that young to come to a track that you don’t know, in Spain, that you have never raced, it’s very hard to be quick and I remember I was really surprised to see that guy...
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