The Super Production Challenge (SPC) series presented three races last weekend as part of the 54th edition of the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières. After finishing Race 1 in sixth position Friday evening in torrential rain, Trois-Rivières driver Frédérick Magny was the victim of a serious accident on the ninth lap of Race 2, presented Saturday on a dry track.

 

Driving the #12 car, Frédérick was in fifth place when on the ninth lap, he suffered a complete electronic failure of the ABS system at the end of the start/finish straight. Deprived of any means of braking, he hit the tire wall, forming the protection of turn 1 of the Trois-Rivières track, head-on at an estimated speed of 146 km/h. He got himself out of the crashed car and taken to the track's medical center, then to the Trois-Rivières hospital. Frédérick Magny suffered a fracture to his right foot that requires surgery in the coming days, as well as a fracture to a cervical vertebra. He remains hospitalized and will then have to respect a convalescence period of approximately six months.

 

Witnessing the situation, the officials of the Super Production Challenge series would like to thank the rescue teams of the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières, the doctors and the hospital staff for their work and the care provided to the driver in the best possible conditions.

 

Experienced and talented, Frédérick started in SPC series in 2015. Driver for M-Performances team, he has collected three overall Top 5s and twelve Top 10s to date. He was competing in his twenty-ninth race in the series on Saturday.

 

Wishing to respect medical confidentiality, the series officials will not make any further comments on this subject. It would also be appreciated to comment on this news on social networks and elsewhere with messages of encouragement for Frédérick Magny, who has already expressed his desire to go looking for a new car, to replace his Nissan Z destroyed on Saturday, for the next seasons of Super Production Challenge!