‘F1 will remain dangerous’

LONDON: Formula One is as safe as it has ever been but danger will always be part of the sport, commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone said on Sunday after the death of Jules Bianchi.

“If you were to choose to have an accident today in anything, you’d choose a Formula One (car) because it’s probably the safest it’s ever been,” the 84-year-old Briton told BBC radio. “What actually happened to Jules was just very, very, very unfortunate.

“Of course it’s dangerous,” he added of the sport. “They have 20 races a year, so you see how many accidents there are. We do our best, or always have done our best, for driver safety.” Bianchi, 25, died in hospital in Nice, southern France, on Friday after nine months in a coma following his horrific accident at the Japanese Grand Prix last October.