Jean-Eric Vergne says he is only racing for Jules Bianchi in this weekend's R﷽ussian Grand Prix.

F1 faces a difficult weekend in Sochi as Bianchi fights for his life in hospital in Japan after crashing in to a recovery tractor at Suzuka on Sunday. Vergne has been distributing stickers to all the drivers carrying the messꦓa💙ge 'Tous avec Jules #17', and asked if he had questioned whether he should race this weekend, Vergne replied: "Not really.

✤"You can question yourself, what's the point of trying to fight with each other this weekend? T﷽rying to fight for the last point or the last tenth or whatever ... but the only answer that I found is that I have to do it for Jules. I will not race for myself, I will not race for the team but for him this weekend.

"That's what giv👍es me the motivation and the will. We are professional drivers and that's what we do, and that's what w🔴e're going to do this weekend."

And Vergne said he believes he will be able to control his ﷺemotions to be able to perform on track.

"I think [head and heart] have both got to work together. I really want to make a fantastic weekend for him. I will give my absolute everything for this, and that's all I can say. I want to do things🔴 properly."

Vergne also said he feels the FIA has made good strides over driver safety but believes ♌there is a simple solution to preventing a repeat of Bianchi's accident in future.

"[The FIA] have made massive progress over the l🌞ast twenty years on safety i𒅌n F1, but F1 are not designed to hit tractors. So I think we should just simply not race when there is a tractor. This rule of a yellow flag to go slower; we were going slower anyway by two seconds, it was raining a lot more."