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Di Montezemolo: Bianchi was Ferrari's future

– Former Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo has paid tribute to the late Jules Bianchi, saying that the young Frenchman had been earmarked as a future driver for the Italian outfit.Bianchi joined Ferrari's Driver Academy in 2009 and remained part of its system throughout his Formula 1 career, prior to his serious accident last year, which led to his death last week.Di Montezemolo, who acted as Ferrari's President for several decades until 2014, said that an "exceptional" person had been lost."Jules was one of us, a member of the Ferrari family and he was the driver who we had picked for the future, once our collaboration with Kimi Räikkönen was to end," di...
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