Formula 3 driver Sophia Florsch has fractured her spine in a high-speed crash at the Macau Grand Prix in China after the 17-year-old German’s car lost control going into a bend before flying through the air and crashing backwards into fences.
Her team, Van Amersfoort Racing, said that she was conscious and in a stable condition. Florsch also confirmed this by saying she was ok and she would be going in for surgery on Monday morning.
Florsch first crashed into Japanese driver Sho Tsuboi and been taken to hospital with back pain.
The race organisers confirmed that Marshal Chan Cha suffered a fractured facial bone and lacerations, a photographer Minami Hiroyuki has a concussion, while the other photographer, Chan Weng Wang, has a liver laceration.
The race was immediately red-flagged after the incident and restarted an hour later.
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