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Former F1 driver Patrick Tambay has hit out at the FIA for so squarely blaming Jules Bianchi for his life-threatening Suzuka crash.
At Wednesday's meeting of the World Motor Sport Council in Qatar, the 10-man panel charged with investigating the October accident handed down an almost 400-page report.
Signed off by the likes of Ross Brawn, Stefano Domenicali and Emerson Fittipaldi, they found that although water was running across the Japanese grand prix track, Jules Bianchi "did not slow sufficiently to avoid losing control".
Frenchman and former Ferrari driver Patrick Tambay said the report left the overwhelming feeling that Bianchi was squarely blamed for his own crash.
The 65-year-old said the FIA had declared: "'We wash our hands'.
"I think it's a shame to accuse the driver -- there must be interests of insurance or things like that," Tambay told RMC Sport.
"It is a judgment to exonerate responsibilities, but I think it's a little bit too hard to just blame the driver," he charged.
Former F1 driver Patrick Tambay has hit out at the FIA for so squarely blaming Jules Bianchi for his life-threatening Suzuka crash.
At Wednesday's meeting of the World Motor Sport Council in Qatar, the 10-man panel charged with investigating the October accident handed down an almost 400-page report.
Signed off by the likes of Ross Brawn, Stefano Domenicali and Emerson Fittipaldi, they found that although water was running across the Japanese grand prix track, Jules Bianchi "did not slow sufficiently to avoid losing control".
Frenchman and former Ferrari driver Patrick Tambay said the report left the overwhelming feeling that Bianchi was squarely blamed for his own crash.
The 65-year-old said the FIA had declared: "'We wash our hands'.
"I think it's a shame to accuse the driver -- there must be interests of insurance or things like that," Tambay told RMC Sport.
"It is a judgment to exonerate responsibilities, but I think it's a little bit too hard to just blame the driver," he charged.
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| Jules Bianchi's crash at Suzuka, Japan. (Photo: WRi2) |