Sauber driver Charles Leclerc feels the pain at Suzuka where his friend Jules Bianchi crashed during a rain-affected 2014 Japanese Grand Prix and died a year later due to the injuries he suffered on that fateful day. Young Leclerc and Bianchi were famously close, the young Monegasque looking up to the Frenchman who was eight years older than him. Leclerc, racing at Suzuka for the first time described his feelings to reporters, “It’s obviously a very difficult weekend. Jules has helped me massively throughout [my career], and more than only on the racing side, it was a bit like a part of the family, all his family, so it is very difficult.' “I’ve never come to Japan before and to...
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