F3 Macau crash

[SearChart]

https://youtu.be/C0W7CMR4tV0

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/18/m...cli/index.html

Pretty insane crash, the 17 year old female driver got away with a broken spine. This could have ended much worse for her and the people behind the fence...

[OmegaJJH]

Horrifying that one.

Gave me goosebumps.

Hope everyone walks away from that accident (after surgery) etc.


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[77T]

Yes terrible.

The organizer had straight fencing but she vaulted over another car it appears.
And went in backwards.

Hope for a full recovery and not paralysis.

Unfortunately, the crash injured five people - two drivers, two photographers and one track marshal.


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[subtona]

holy crap that is insane!!

hope she recovers!

[Valenciawatchrepair]

Wow. And in a split second and at 167mph(270km/h) Crazy!

[bayerische]

Holy-moly!

[BNA/LION]

Wow! Glad she is alive and others on the other side of the fence are not hurt too!

[Wesley Crusher]

The fact that she survived that is nothing short of a miracle. Holy crap!

[stratguy]

Still trying to figure out how this happened. Crazy. glad she is ok.

[jpl20]

WOW! Why was she going so much faster than everyone else?

[Dyim]

Prior collision damaged aerodynamics components. Once you lost downforce, won’t be able to stop very well.

[ckaynyc]

Originally Posted by jpl20

WOW! Why was she going so much faster than everyone else?

Brakes don’t work when you’re airborn.

[V25V]

Macau always brings out the worst accidents. What's more amazing is that bikes run there....


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[brandrea]

Unbelievable. I hope everyone heals and gets back to living life as they were.

[77T]

The dramatic speed she had on the video - coming into that corner - was due to hitting other cars before she came into camera range. The drivers were slowing for the corner except she didn’t brake in time. She was already 180° turned and skipping onto the inside curbing and launching airborne.

FIA will investigate further but here is what a driver told officials and reporters:

Ferrari junior driver Guan Yu Zhou, who was behind Floersch, explained how the unprecedented crash unfolded.

“First of all it was such a scary moment,” Zhou said.

“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.”


What I find miraculous is that her helmeted head managed to not hit the fence pole nor photog’s scaffolding. We’ve lost many open cockpit drivers from head hits into obstacles.

She is tweeting from the hospital and alert - hopefully her spinal surgery will be successful.

A Photog has a lacerated liver and another was concussed. The course marshal has a fractured jaw. Another driver she hit before the launch into the fence has back pain.

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[MP5]

Dang that was about as bad as it gets

[RW16610]

Wow, that's insane. I saw a crash up close during the 2018 Indy race weekend in Toronto. It was the Friday morning during practice. It seemed intense but was nothing compared to that, wow.

[1st amg]

The velocity of her being airborne is something I have never seen like this.

[Valenciawatchrepair]

Originally Posted by 1st amg

The velocity of her being airborne is something I have never seen like this.

When everyone else is braking into a tight corner, and you have so much static stuff(building, people, etc.) a car doing 167mph looks like a bullet. It's all perspective. 200MPH crashes in NASCAR look almost slow motion because everyone is doing the same speed and the camera is panning.

[tritium8]

Makes me think of the Mark Webber crash in Spain.

Amazing that she survived that!

[OmegaJJH]

Originally Posted by tritium8

Makes me think of the Mark Webber crash in Spain.

Me too.

And he walked away from that without a scratch.



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[superdog]

After these reactions, not even going to watch the video.

[1William]

Amazing crash.

[OmegaJJH]

Originally Posted by superdog

After these reactions, not even going to watch the video.

Don’t blame you.

Once seen, you cannot un-see!!


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[Tomas Eriksson]

Racing is still dangerous even with all safety measures. Wonder if it was a pure driver misstake or if anything mechanical broke that made her unable to break.
Pray that she gets a full recovery.

[antbkny]

Wild!

[themast]

Is there any footage of what happened upstream?

I can see that the car comes into the corner backward and clearly out of control but I would like to see what happened on the straight away before the turn.

[77T]

Originally Posted by Tomas Eriksson

Racing is still dangerous even with all safety measures. Wonder if it was a pure driver misstake or if anything mechanical broke that made her unable to break.
Pray that she gets a full recovery.

I wouldn’t necessarily call it a driver mistake, it was the green flag lap and cars were bunched - she was just caught out unsighted by the driver ahead of her who hit the brakes.

The reaction time in such close quarters on the first lap usually leads to contact. But in this case it caused a 180° spin and multiple issues that resulted in an airborne condition.

There was little chance anything broke so early in the race - and with the damage done to the chassis/suspension even less chance to know after the fact.

But a lack of hubris could be a factor some might call driver error. Incautiously approaching the turn at speed could have been a contributing factor.

I deal with this many times a year with very young drivers. It is hard to overstate their feelings of invulnerability which results from adolescent risk assessment capacity coupled with over-reliance on the strength of modern race car safety measures. Oftentimes they place their car in a position that more experienced drivers know can lead to disastrous results.

Not pointing fingers, just sharing some angles of thought while the story unfolds.




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[77T]

Originally Posted by themast

Is there any footage of what happened upstream?

I can see that the car comes into the corner backward and clearly out of control but I would like to see what happened on the straight away before the turn.

FIA has all the cars’ videos - F3 cars all have forward and rear facing cameras. So cars behind the incident (upstream as you say) as well as the one who she hit will have video. But the videos may still not indicate the exact cause.


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[joeychitwood]

While driving down the highway at 80 mph, I sometimes wonder what it would be like going from 80 to 0 mph in a space of ten feet. Now imagine going from 170 to 0 against a building. I'm surprised she survived the G-forces of the declaration.