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Hollande leads tributes to Bianchi

French president Francois Hollande led the flood of tributes on Saturday to Jules Bianchi, the Formula One driver who has died nine months after a horror crash at the Japanese Grand Prix. "French motorsport has lost one of its greatest hopes," Hollande wrote in a statement following news of Bianchi's death aged 25 on Friday night at a hospital in Nice. "My thoughts are with his parents, his family and his friends." Bianchi tragically became the first driver to perish in a F1 Grand Prix since Ayrton Senna died at San Marino in 1994. Over two decades on Senna's arch rival, four-time world champion Alain Prost, paid his own tribute to Bianchi. "We will always...
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