Macau GP Accident

[Icemanbrfc]

Damn this was so brutal

Five people have been injured following a huge crash at the Macau Grand Prix after an airborne Formula 3 car struck and cleared a perimeter fence.

Sophia Florsch, of Van Amersfoort Racing, lost control of her car after a collision with Jehan Daruvala heading towards the Lisboa bend, careering into another driver - Sho Tsuboi - before being launched into the air.

Both drivers, two photographers and a marshal were taken to Conde S. Januário hospital with all reported to be conscious.

A statement from Van Amersfoort Racing said 17-year-old Florsch has been diagnosed with a spinal fracture. Florsch later tweeted that she is "fine" but will have an operation on Monday morning.

 

[Agent_Smith]

Oh... My... Sack!! How no one is dead is beyond me.

 

[Icemanbrfc]

How light is that car though. It just looked like it was so easily tossed into the air, as if it was a piece of paper

 

[greg0205]

How light is that car though. It just looked like it was so easily tossed into the air, as if it was a piece of paper

About 800kg with the driver... That crash was more about the speed she was moving at 'tho.

 

[Zoomzoom]

so lucky for all involved to walk away from that alive. just wow.

 

[thestaggy]

How light is that car though. It just looked like it was so easily tossed into the air, as if it was a piece of paper

The speed trap just before the corner clocked her at 276 km/h. The car itself weighs 580 kg. Early reports are the car ahead of her braked earlier than usual, she clipped it, lost/damaged a wheel and and subsequently had little to no chance of controlling the car or shedding speed.

Airborne crashes are not uncommon for single-seaters due to speed and weight.

Even something as heavy and robust as an Indycar (designed to hit walls at massive speeds) can be tossed in to the air. See Gonzalo Rodriguez's fatal accident. He hits a tyre wall head on and flips nose-over-tail over catch fencing.

 

[thestaggy]

Update on the driver.

German F3 driver Sophia Floersch, who fractured her spine in an aerial crash at the Macau Grand Prix on Sunday, has reassured fans she is recovering well and vowed to return to the sport.

Floersch sustained the injury at the street circuit when her car flew off the track and into a photographers’ bunker at high speed.

She underwent an 11-hour surgery for her injuries and on Wednesday the 17-year-old took to Facebook to issue her first public words since the accident.

“I survived the operation which took 11 hours. Hope from now on it only gets better. I have to stay a few more days in Macau until I’m transportable. I want to thank all of my fans for every single get-well wishes, which I now start reading,” Floersch wrote.

...

“I’m going to come back btw. Dallara built a very good chassis.”

Floersch’s Van Amersfoort Racing team said earlier this week doctors had ruled out fear of paralysis.

“Everything is working and everything is in order,” team boss Frits Van Amersfoort told the BBC on Monday.

“We are extremely happy that she is now recovering and that everything went extremely well. There’s no fear of paralysis whatsoever.”

https://www.news.com.au/sport/motor...h/news-story/911e3aba73a328c026ddfd9ba38ed56a