It was a year ago last Sunday that Jules Bianchi died, having survived for over nine months in a coma after suffering a 254g impact with a recovery tractor during the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix.
The event was held in atrocious conditions due to the approach of Typhoon Phanfone, a Category 1 storm that struck Japan's eastern coast - along which the Suzuka circuit is situated - early that Sunday morning.
The Frenchman, grandson of sixties sportscar driver Mauro, who was badly burned in a race, and great-nephew of Formula 1 driver and Le Mans 24 Hours winner Lucien, who died testing a sportscar, slid off the track at the very spot where Adrian Sutil had pirouetted off a lap earlier, his Marussia going straight into and under the vehicle sent to recover Sutil's Sauber. Double waved yellow flags had been displayed vigorously.