Overview

• Bianchi collided with a recovery crane under yellow flags at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix and died nine months later
• He remains the first Formula 1 fatality since Ayrton Senna in 1994 and is still the last driver to die from on-track injuries
• The FIA mandated the Halo cockpit protection device in 2018 followed by the Virtual Safety Car and stricter crane intervention protocols
• Expanded run-off zones and revised track intervention procedures have been adopted across Formula 1, Formula 2 and Formula 3 since his accident
• Incidents such as Romain Grosjean’s 2020 Bahrain crash and Guanyu Zhou’s 2022 Silverstone collision demonstrated the effectiveness of these safety measures