Philippe Bianchi, the father of the late Jules Bianchi, says he believes the time has come for motorsport to begin adopting closed-cockpits, even in the knowledge that such a feature would not have saved his son's life. Jules Bianchi passed away on July 17 2015 as a result of head injuries sustained in an accident during the Japanese Grand Prix nine months earlier, becoming the first person to die in an F1 race since Ayrton Senna in 1994. Bianchi was critically hurt when he spun in wet conditions at Suzuka during a safety car period and struck a recovery vehicle as it was removing Adrian Sutil's Sauber from the gravel trap. The nature of the accident raised the speculation that a closed...
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