Sophia Floersch crash: inside Macau Grand Prix photographers’ bunker hit by 276kmh ‘missile’
- Photographer Christiaan Hart reveals frightening moment of impact and aftermath
- Lucky escape after car flew off track at 276 kilometres per hour through safety fencing
A photographer inside the Macau Grand Prix bunker hit by Sophia Floersch’s car has revealed the frightening moments of the impact and the immediate aftermath of the horror crash.
Hong Kong-based Australian Christiaan Hart was one of five photographers inside the tribune at the Guia Circuit’s Lisboa corner, capturing the moment German 17-year-old Floersch flew off the track at 276 kilometres per hour.
“It was like a missile coming at us,” Hart told the South China Morning Post.
The Van Amersfoort Racing driver had initially been spun backwards into the crash barrier further down the flat-out straight, a collision which ripped both her left-side wheels off their axles and effectively left her without brakes.
She then hit a raised inside “sausage” kerb, which launched her Dallara-Mercedes airborne through the safety fencing and directly into the photographers’ tribune.
“I didn’t see the initial touch, just on camera after reviewing it,” Hart said. “We were shooting the front cars initially, and then I saw through the camera she was coming out of control towards us.