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FIA promises probe into Macau aerial crash
International motorsports chief Jean Todt has promised the governing FIA will investigate Sunday’s horrific aerial crash at the Formula Three Macau Grand Prix which left 17-year-old German driver Sophia Floersch with a spinal fracture.
Floersch was catapulted off the track into a photographers’ bunker after hitting the back of one car and shunted over another while travelling at more than 275 kilometers per hour on the tight street circuit in China’s Macau. The teenager was conscious when taken to hospital in the former Portuguese colony from where she tweeted that she was “fine” and would undergo surgery yesterday. “After the serious incident today in Macau the FIA is mobilized to help those involved and analyze what happened,” International Motorsport Federation president Todt tweeted. “We will monitor the situation and make the necessary conclusions.” Crashes are frequent at the Macau GP which this year, in its 65th edition, hosted six car and motorcycle races on the 6.2-km Guia Circuit around the streets of the island. Last year, British motorcyclist Daniel Hegarty died after hitting the safety barrier during a race, the eighth rider to have lost his life on the circuit since 1973.
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