Sophia Flörsch MACAU F3 crash

[llewop]

She has just posted on Twitter!!!


Just wanted to let everybody know that I am fine but will be going into Surgery tomorow morning. Thanks to the @fia and @hwaag_official @MercedesAMGF1 who are taking great care of me.
Thanks to everybody for the Supporting messages.
Update soon.

Astonishing she is in a fit state to do so and a measure of the world we now live in that she has!

[thebigmacmoomin]

Well its certainly good that she is ok. Just watched the video of the crash for the first time and immediately thought that she wouldn't be. Thank god that the safety of the cars is so good.

[ellroy]

It’s those beyond the fence that need the concern from what I’ve heard.

As has been said the driver is in probably the safest place at that point these days.

[MitchT]

It's mind bogging that a car can go top first into a track side structure, decelerate from a very high speed to nothing in an instant and the driver be tweeting about it a few hours later. Whatever the strength of the cars, the effect of the deceleration on the body dooesn't bear thinking about.

[Dinoboy]

llewop said:

She has just posted on Twitter!!!


Just wanted to let everybody know that I am fine but will be going into Surgery tomorow morning. Thanks to the @fia and @hwaag_official @MercedesAMGF1 who are taking great care of me.
Thanks to everybody for the Supporting messages.
Update soon.

Astonishing she is in a fit state to do so and a measure of the world we now live in that she has!

What a star, good on her.

[Speed Badger]

It reminded me so much of Greg Moore's accident in Champ Car. She has been so lucky, I think the viewing gap in the tower saved her life in that with the car hitting vertically, her head entered the gap, with the car smashing into the metal above and below the gap. Hope everyone else is ok, think the racing gods were looking down today.

[Baron Greenback]

Holy crap just seen the footage! City courses are needing revisiting, so crampt and still very fast and have had so many big crashes! That one is the worst I have seen for long time!

[andy_s]

Jeezo, that's a shocker.

[Megaflow]

gottans said:

Mr E said:

Bloody hell. I’d have presumed fatal if I’d seen it live. That was terrifying.

That is horrific, hope all concerned make full recoveries.

I saw the crash before I saw an update on her condition, and I was sure it would have been fatal. The speed at which the car stopped when it hit the shed thing was just sickening.

To hear she is alive, stable and conscious is a testament to modern single seater safety. Hopefully the spinal fracture can been sorted over the winter and she can be back in a car again next year.

[Petrus1983]

This is why girls don’t need their own racing series - as when they’re good enough to compete they demonstrate they have as big kahoonas as anyone else - and following that tweet she must be pretty epic!

[covboy]

Eric Mc said:

Some better quality footage here -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHZWJkcBz8U

A bit worrying about there seemed to be quite a slow response from the Marshals to car/driver

[Petrus1983]

covboy said:

A bit worrying about there seemed to be quite a slow response from the Marshals to car/driver

A lot of the video was slowed down, a car had just hit one of them (the others a little shocked maybe) and maybe not trained for the eventuality of a car actually going through the barricade. All in all I don’t think they did too badly.

[Derek Smith]

One gets the feeling that anywhere else it could have been tragic for more than the driver.

Spinal injury is not good of course, but it is remarkable that she survived.

[Drumroll]

covboy said:

A bit worrying about there seemed to be quite a slow response from the Marshals to car/driver

looking at it the car was "suspended" by the cables so you couldn't actually get close to the car without the car moving. Also they had just had a very big "oh sh!t" moment and maybe needed a couple of seconds to get it together. Very easy to criticise.

[bodysnatcher]

covboy said:

A bit worrying about there seemed to be quite a slow response from the Marshals to car/driver

really, how often have you stood within 5m of a car hitting the wall at 150=kph.?, There's 2 of my mates there and I think they did a bloody fantastic job.

[Pericoloso]

Had that small building , or whatever it is not been there ,she'd have flown a whole lot further and could have been a whole lot worse.

Hope her recovery is full and not too lengthy.

[Piginapoke]

Speed Badger said:

It reminded me so much of Greg Moore's accident in Champ Car. She has been so lucky, I think the viewing gap in the tower saved her life in that with the car hitting vertically, her head entered the gap, with the car smashing into the metal above and below the gap. Hope everyone else is ok, think the racing gods were looking down today.

It was shocking; but from what I recall of poor Greg Moore’s crash it was much faster and a lot more energy in a heavier car. He never stood a chance. This reminded me more of Alonso’s crash in Australia 2016.

As others have said, amazing she is tweeting after something like that.

[ralphrj]

[parabolica]

Looks like there is a guy standing in the middle of that structure; hopefully he's ok too!

[Gameface]

Perversely clipping that car and going airborne may actually have saved her. The scaffolding structure had some give in it and lessened the deceleration slightly.

If she'd been ground level and hit the immobile trackside barriers she may well have succumbed due to g-forces involved in a more abrupt stop.