Over £188,000 has been raised for Maria Costello following a crash in this year’s TT which has left her suffering with paralysis.
Maria and her passenger, Shaun Parker, were involved in a crash near Brandish during the opening sidecar qualifying session on May 26.
A fundraising page was set up to assist in Maria’s recovery, the GoFundMe page says it will be “highly expensive and after a career spent raising money from sponsors and backers for racing we now find ourselves asking for support for a very different but all to real problem”.
So far the total has reached over £188,767.
Her team said: “Maria will need specialist help with physio care and perhaps surgeries to hopefully help Maria regain use of her legs.
“One thing that is clear from Maria’s injuries is that this will have a lifelong impact on her, not just preventing and affecting a return to sport but impacting Maria’s every day life.
“Maria will need to adapt almost all aspects of her life. After a life of giving everything to a sport she loves, she will now turn that determination to recovery and recuperation.”
