Two drivers, two photographers, and one race marshall have been hospitalized after a terrifying crash sent Sophia Flörsch flying, with her front wheels dangling off her car, up and over another driver, through the track’s crash fencing, and then into a photographer’s stand on the outside of the corner. This is what can happen at Macau, the tightest street course in the world.

The speed and severity of Flörsch’s crash is, I don’t want to keep saying terrifying, but it really is so much faster and more violent and more abrupt than wrecks you see at racetracks with plenty of safe run-off areas.

Flörsch hit fellow driver Sho Tsuboi at the tight Lisboa corner at yesterday’s Formula 3 race at the infamous Macau GP. Flörsch had already lost her front wheels in another incident up the straight, as reports. Both drivers were conscious, as the race organizers initially announced.

A later medical announcement from race officials, spotted by , stated that Flörsch had been diagnosed with a spinal fracture:

Flörsch herself tweeted today that she will be undergoing surgery, and that she’s “fine,” proving that race car drivers have extremely different ideas of what “fine” constitutes:

Adding to the horror of the crash, the race broadcast appears to have only shown a fraction of what happened. Flörsch going airborne looks more like a video glitch than anything else:

Whereas people watching in the stands saw the whole thing, which is troubling to watch:

The speed of it makes it hard even on video to see clearly what happened, but one person standing above the inside the corner got the full view in slow-motion. Again, this is difficult to watch, knowing how many people were injured:

The racing world learned in the 1960s and 1970s that as cars grow faster and faster, race tracks need more and more space between drivers and potentially deadly obstacles. But this wreck shows how much danger racers are still exposed to, and how hard it can be to protect them when space is limited. .

We will update when we get more information on the condition of Flörsch, Tsuboi, the photographers, and the marshall.