Horrifying new video shows driver get airborne at 270km/h

New vision has emerged of the moment Sophia Floersch got airborne and was flung over a fence at 270km/h at the Macau Grand Prix.

Floersch hit the back of 15th-placed Jehan Daruvala on the flat-out run to Lisboa, and sustained damage to her Van Amersfoort Racing Dallara-Mercedes in the impact.

She hurtled out of control, and got launched over the inside kerb at Lisboa into the TOM’S Dallara-Toyota of Sho Tsuboi.

The impact launched her over the barrier and through the catch fencing into an area occupied by marshals and photographers, striking a bunker construction.

The speed-trap figure before the Lisboa braking area shows that she was at 276.2km/h.

A medical report released by Floersch’s team revealed the German was conscious but that she had sustained a spinal fracture.

A subsequent FIA statement revealed that Tsuboi, two members of the media and marshal had also been “transferred to a local hospital in a conscious state for further evaluation.”

Floersch has since tweeted that she is “fine”.

The marshal, Chan Cha In, suffered a laceration of the face, abrasion of his upper abdomen wall and a fractured jaw.

Photographer Chan Weng Wang sustained a liver laceration and is being observed in hospital, with fellow photographer Minami Hiroyuki suffering a concussion and likewise under observation.

Ferrari junior Guan Yu Zhou, who was following Floersch at the time of the accident, explained that it was due to yellow caution lights flashing on the straight.

“First of all it was such a scary moment,” said the Prema Powerteam driver.

“Coming after Mandarin [the preceding right-hand kink], I saw the yellow, but I think it was just a mistake by the organisers’ station.

“Sophia was really close to Jehan, so when Jehan braked early she had no time to react.

“She hit Jehan’s right-rear, and that spun her around straight into Lisboa, and she flew into the other car.”

With Motorsport.com