Several tributes will be paid to Anthoine Hubert this weekend in Spa

A year later, the memory is still vivid. While the championships F1, F2, F3 have thrown their marquees in the heart of the Belgian Ardennes, it is impossible not to have a moved thought for Anthoine Hubert, whose trajectory was broken at the top of Raidillon of Eau Rouge this damn Saturday August 31, 2019. 

Several tributes have been planned to honor the memory of the Lyonnais this week. Formula 2 thus announced that Hubert's racing number, 19, would no longer be available. The race numbers will therefore go from 16-17 to 20-21, as is already the case this season. 

All the competitors at the Belgian meeting will also display on their cars a special AH19 logo, set in a star, one of the designs on the helmet of the former member of the Renault Sports Academy. 

Finally, two minutes of silence will take place during the weekend, the first before the long Formula 2 race on Saturday, the second on the starting grid of the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday.

Travel companions during their training years and close friends of Hubert, Charles Leclerc et Pierre Gasly have already confided that the return to the lands of Spa-Francorchamps was necessarily difficult. 

“It will be a sad moment because we lost Anthoine last year, said the pilot in particular Alpha Tauri, who went to leave flowers at the exit of Raidillon.

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I've known him since we were 7 years old and doing karting together under the aegis of the FFSA. We were then roommates between the ages of 13 and 19. I think everyone in the paddock will have a thought for him.”

Last Sunday, the Angerville (Essonne) karting track where Hubert was licensed from 2004 to 2019, was renamed Circuit International Anthoine Hubert.