German motor racing driver Sophia Floersch has been recognised for overcoming a horrific crash, which many thought would end her career.
The world was stunned by the images of the 19-year-old flying off the race track in Macau back in 2018.
After 17 hours of surgery on her fractured spine she was back racing in less than a year, a comeback acknowledged at the Laureus Awards in Berlin.
Sophia Floersch, 17, is undergoing spinal surgery after the horror smash in Macau. (Source: Other)
“For me in the car it didn’t feel that bad. I remember everything. It was hard times but for me I always had the goal to come back, to come back in a race car, which was happening 106 days later,” she told the crowd.
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