‘Macau is deep in my heart’: Sophia Floersch confirms Macau Grand Prix return 12 months after spectacular crash
- The 18-year-old German will race with HWA Racelab after Formula Three testing with the team in Valencia, Spain last month
- She is looking forward to returning to the ‘incredible’ Macau track having scraped enough funds to have another go at the race
German teenager Sophia Floersch has been confirmed for this month’s Macau Grand Prix, having received last-minute funding to have another go in the race that last year saw her suffer a spectacular crash.
The 18-year-old has managed to secure a seat with HWA Racelab and is set to return to the famous 6.2km Guia circuit, where she survived a massive crash that made news headlines around the world. This month’s Macau Grand Prix will be held on November 17 with the 66th running of the race.
As first reported by the South China Morning Post last month, Floersch had always intended to return to the Macau Grand Prix even though last year’s 276km/h high speed crash almost cost her life.
The up-and-coming driver needed four months to recover after suffering several vertebrae fractures when her Van Amersfoort Racing car flew off the track and smashed straight into a photographer’s bunker.
Her injuries required 11 hours of surgery at Conde S. Januario hospital in Macau and at the time of her crash, it was not known whether the young German starlet would return to racing let alone lead a normal life. But amazingly, Floersch not only made a full recovery, she was back competing and she can’t wait to return to the Guia circuit, having secured enough sponsorship to race again at the famous track.
Floersch competed n the inaugural Formula Regional European Championship this season before she joined HWA Racelab, testing the team’s Formula Three cars in the postseason last month in Valencia, Spain.