Si tu prends ce virage trop vite, tu risques de te faire mal.

Because after si for a real or likely condition, French normally uses the present tense, not the future.

So French says:

• Si tu prends ce virage trop vite...

not:

• Si tu prendras ce virage trop vite...

This is different from English, where learners sometimes expect a future idea. In French, the pattern is often:

• si + present, then present / future / imperative / other main clause

Examples:

• Si tu viens, je serai content.
• Si tu touches ça, tu te brûles.
• Si tu as le temps, appelle-moi.

In your sentence, both verbs are in the present because it expresses a general warning:

• If you take this bend too fast, you risk hurting yourself.

Prends is the tu form of prendre in the present tense.

The verb is prendre = to take.
Here it means to take a turn/bend, just like English can say take a turn.

Present tense of prendre:

• je prends
• tu prends
• il/elle prend
• nous prenons
• vous prenez
• ils/elles prennent

So:

• tu prends = you take

Un virage usually means a bend, curve, or turn in a road.

In this sentence:

• ce virage = this bend/this turn

It is commonly used for roads, driving, racing, and similar contexts.

Examples:

• Ce virage est dangereux. = This bend is dangerous.
• Il a pris le virage trop vite. = He took the turn too fast.

Because virage is a masculine singular noun that starts with a consonant sound.

French uses:

• ce before most masculine singular nouns
• cet before masculine singular nouns that begin with a vowel or silent h
• cette for feminine singular nouns

So:

• ce virage
• cet homme
• cet accident
• cette route

Since virage starts with v, you use ce.

Because in French, trop modifies the adverb vite, and the normal order is:

• trop vite = too quickly / too fast

Here:

• vite = quickly / fast
• trop = too

So trop vite means too fast.

Other similar examples:

• trop loin = too far
• trop tard = too late
• trop lentement = too slowly

French does not normally say vite trop in this meaning.

Risquer de + infinitive means to risk doing something or to be likely to suffer some bad result.

So:

• tu risques de te faire mal = you risk hurting yourself / you could hurt yourself

This structure is very common:

• risquer de tomber = to risk falling
• risquer d’échouer = to risk failing
• risquer de perdre = to risk losing

It often suggests a warning or danger, which fits this sentence well.

Because the verb risquer is commonly followed by de + infinitive when the meaning is to risk doing something.

So the pattern is:

• risquer de + infinitive

Examples:

• Tu risques de tomber.
• Elle risque de pleurer.
• Nous risquons de rater le train.

That is simply the standard construction here. English does not need a word like de, but French does.

Se faire mal literally looks like to do harm to oneself or to make pain to oneself, but the natural meaning is:

• to hurt oneself

Breakdown:

• se = oneself
• faire = to do / to make
• mal = badly / pain / hurt, depending on the expression

As a fixed expression:

• se faire mal = to get hurt / to hurt oneself

Examples:

• Je me suis fait mal au dos. = I hurt my back.
• Elle s’est fait mal en tombant. = She hurt herself by falling.

So in your sentence:

• tu risques de te faire mal = you risk hurting yourself

Because object and reflexive pronouns normally come before the infinitive they belong to.

Here the infinitive is faire, and te goes directly before it:

• te faire mal

This is standard French pronoun placement.

Compare:

• Je vais te voir. = I’m going to see you.
• Il peut se tromper. = He can make a mistake.
• Tu risques de te blesser. = You risk injuring yourself.

So te is linked to faire, and that is why it comes before faire.

Because French normally requires an explicit subject pronoun before each conjugated verb.

So you get:

• Si tu prends..., tu risques...

English can sometimes avoid repeating the subject in certain structures, but French generally does not do that here.

Each conjugated verb needs its subject:

• tu prends
• tu risques

That repetition is completely normal and necessary.

In se faire mal, mal is part of a fixed expression. It is not behaving like a normal adjective in the way bad might in English.

You should learn:

• faire mal à quelqu’un = to hurt someone
• se faire mal = to hurt oneself

Examples:

• Ça fait mal. = That hurts.
• Je me suis fait mal. = I hurt myself.

So while mal often functions like an adverb in other contexts, in this expression it is best to treat se faire mal as a set phrase meaning to get hurt / hurt oneself.

Yes, but the nuance is different.

• tu risques de te faire mal = you risk hurting yourself / you’re likely to hurt yourself
• tu peux te faire mal = you can hurt yourself / you could hurt yourself

Risquer de sounds more like a warning about danger and probability.
Pouvoir just says it is possible.

So in a safety warning, tu risques de te faire mal is often the stronger and more natural choice.

They are close, but not always identical.

• se faire mal often means to hurt oneself, sometimes mildly
• se blesser means to injure oneself, often sounding a bit more formal or more clearly physical

Examples:

• Je me suis fait mal au genou. = I hurt my knee.
• Il s’est blessé au bras. = He injured his arm.

In many everyday situations, se faire mal is the more common conversational phrase. It fits very naturally in a warning like this one.