His team, Infiniti Red Bull Racing, also started the season as defending World Constructors' Champion having secured its fourth consecutive Constructors' title last season at the same Grand Prix in which its lead driver secured his title.
Sebastian Vettel started the season as defending World Drivers' Champion having secured his fourth consecutive Drivers' title the previous season at the 2013 Indian Grand Prix. The Indian Grand Prix was put on hiatus before being removed from the schedule entirely along with the Korean Grand Prix.
The 2014 calendar featured substantial revisions from the 2013 season the Russian Grand Prix (held the first time in a century) was held at the Sochi Autodrom, and the Austrian Grand Prix was revived with the race held at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg. In 2014, the championship saw the introduction of a revised engine formula, in which the 2.4-litre V8 engine configuration-previously used between 20-was replaced with a new formula specifying a 1.6-litre (97.6 cu in) turbocharged V6 engine that incorporated an energy recovery system into its build. He died on 17 July 2015 after spending nine months in a coma following the accident. It was the first Formula One season since 1994 to see an accident with ultimately fatal consequences as Jules Bianchi succumbed to the injuries he sustained during the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix. In the nineteen Grands Prix of the season, a total of eleven teams and twenty-four drivers competed for the World Drivers' and World Constructors' championships. The season commenced in Australia on 16 March and concluded in Abu Dhabi on 23 November. It featured the 65th Formula One World Championship, a motor racing championship for Formula One cars, recognised by the sport's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. The 2014 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 68th season of FIA Formula One motor racing.
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