French Formula One driver Jules Bianchi has died from head injuries sustained in a crash at last year's Japanese Grand Prix.
He was 25.
The news was posted on Bianchi's official Twitter feed early Saturday morning and later confirmed by the Manor F1 team.
Bianchi had been in a coma since the October fifth accident, in which he collided at high speed with a mobile crane, which was being used to pick up another crashed car.
The driver's family released a statement saying "Jules fought right to the very end, as he always did, but today his battle came to an end."
Bianchi competed in 34 races over the 2013 and 2014 seasons, scoring the first ever championship points for Manor--then known as Marussia--by finishing ninth at last year's Monaco Grand Prix.
The 25-year-old died in his hometown of Nice, where he had been since his emergency treatment in Japan in the days after the accident.
Bianchi's collision occurred at the end of the race at Suzuka. In rainy, gloomy conditions, Bianchi's car slid off the track at 126 kilometers-per-hour and smashed into a crane picking up the Sauber of German driver Adrian Sutil, who had crashed out at the same spot one lap earlier.
