Felipe Massa Injury - Fisichella to race to the end of 2009

[Zack]

Some more photos from Budapest:
By Ivanoff

[phil1993]

Massa won't drive Valencia - its one thing being able to walk around a hospital, but another to be fit for F1 and I expect they will rest him incase he injures his head again

[phil1993]

'Lucky' Massa eager to race again

"I know I'm lucky to be alive - I don't remember anything about the accident but I will race again," Massa told the News of the World.

He added that he had been extremely confused when he was woken from the induced coma he had been placed in following his surgery, but that when he heard how the Hungarian Grand Prix had unfolded he was confident he could have won.

"When I woke up I didn't know why I was in hospital, so I was asking 'why am I here?'" Massa said.

"I was pulling all the tubes and Eduardo, my brother, tried to stop me - so we had a fight.

"The accident was so unlucky but I know I'm lucky to be alive. I don't remember anything of what happened.

"It was my race, so when I awoke from the coma I couldn't believe it when they told me Lewis [Hamilton] had won and Kimi [Raikkonen] was second."

Massa was visited in hospital yesterday by his friend and former team-mate Michael Schumacher, who is making a surprise Formula 1 comeback to deputise for him at Ferrari while he recovers.

Schumacher said he had been pleasantly surprised by how quickly Massa's condition had improved.

"It was good to finally see Felipe, I feel better now," said Schumacher. "Although I've been constantly in contact with him through Nicolas and Jean [Todt] and I always knew everything, it's always better to see things with your own eyes.

"I'm surprised by how good his condition is, considering that the accident happened last week. We've been together and spoke a bit about everything. I feel really relieved now."

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77512

[shailf1]

Received another round of visits today, michael, jean todt e piero ferrari went to visit felipe.

Friend Popo bueno said felipe is already too worried with his appearance (as he's very busy receiving guests i guess) today he wanted to shave, his friend tried to offer help, as usual the answer was... NO!

Following F1 reducing things, Dr Altmann has cut down the visiting hours for felipe, dr altmann said felipe gets too agitated whenever people gets there, another cut is going to be on his "super license" to be circulating around the hallways of the hospital. thou the hospital hasn't told the reason behind it, some say it might have been due to either felipe entering the hallway with the red light, or felipe not following the speed limits !!

Altmann said it's very important that he rests, he is always too excited whenever he sees someone.

[shailf1]

Massa has finally given an interview, to erm, the News of the World.

Of all of the newspapers in all of the world why that one?

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/4 ... -coma.html

Spoiler:

FELIPE MASSA woke up from a coma following life-saving brain surgery - and immediately started a FIGHT with his brother!

Ferrari's stricken Formula One star also tried to rip out the tubes and drips that were helping his recovery in the wake of his horrific 163mph crash during qualifying for last Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.

And then, incredibly, he insisted: "I would have won the race." Speaking for the first time since cheating death in a freak accident, the Brazilian admitted: "I know I am lucky to be alive - but I WILL race again.

"When I woke up I didn't know why I was in hospital so I was asking 'Why am I here?' I was pulling all the tubes and my brother Eduardo tried to stop me so we had a fight.

"The accident was just so unlucky but I know I am lucky to be alive. I don't remember anything of what happened." Massa, 28, was knocked unconscious, his skull was fractured and his eye was badly damaged by the 2lb spring that flew off the rear of fellow Brazilian Rubens Barrichello's Brawn GP car.

He was rushed to Budapest's AEK Military Hospital with life-threatening head injuries. Britain's reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton won the race and then dedicated it to his Ferrari rival.

And as Massa woke from his coma he told his brother: "That was my race. I couldn't believe it when they told me Lewis had won and team-mate Kimi Raikkonen was second."

Massa's 25-week pregnant wife, Rafaela, and his parents Luis Antonio and Ana Elena flew overnight from Brazil to be by his bedside. They joined Eduardo - who watched his brother plough headlong into a tyre barrier - as he came out of a coma last Sunday.

There were fears Massa's eye injury might end his racing career but he is making a good recovery. He will fly home to Brazil by private jet tomorrow.

Massa has even been able to jokily tell Michael Schumacher not to get too comfortable in his seat in the Ferrari. The seven-time champ has come out of a three-year retirement to replace Massa while he recovers from his injuries.

Schumacher visited his pal in hospital yesterday just 24 hours after completing 67 laps in a two-year-old Ferrari at their Mugello test track in Italy.

Schuey said: "It is good that I finally made it to see Felipe. I feel better now. I am surprised at his condition as the accident was only one week ago. We sat together chatting for three hours and I really feel relieved now."

But Schumacher admitted he was feeling the effects of driving again.

He added: "I have to say that I am feeling muscles I was not even aware existed any more. But you cannot test for a day after such a lot of time without feeling anything, and I am curious to see what will happen in the coming days."

Schuey, 40, is preparing to race in the European Grand Prix later this month. And he declared: "After a couple of laps I was able to drive constant lap times and I was happy with the performance."

Schumacher insists he has not missed F1 since retiring in 2006, having racked up 91 wins. But he is now relishing his return.

He added: "F1 has not excited me since I retired. I put myself at a certain distance and it doesn't feel the same at all. But I will now be fully focused. It is not so much the adrenalin that I am looking for - I'm not full of adrenalin when I race.

"It is the excitement of the wheel-to-wheel fighting and the achievement that you can have."

And Schumacher has been backed to make an amazing comeback at the European Grand Prix by WINNING the street race in Spain.

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone said: "Michael can certainly win the race. He won't be getting into a car that was as dominant as the one he had, but the Ferrari is improving. And Felipe won the race in Valencia last year with ease.

"Michael may be 40, but age has nothing to do with it. He is still very fit and a great driver. It is great news for F1 that he is back. I know all the other drivers are pretty excited.

"Maybe they want to try and give him some lessons, but they should watch out."

[Ali]

Massa has finally given an interview, to erm, the News of the World.

Of all of the newspapers in all of the world why that one?

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/4 ... -coma.html

Shail, do you follow the topic? It's already been posted just two messages before.

[shailf1]

Massa has finally given an interview, to erm, the News of the World.

Of all of the newspapers in all of the world why that one?

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/4 ... -coma.html

Shail, do you follow the topic? It's already been posted just two messages before.

that was autosport and the messages are from two different reporters, plus news of the world has got some more quotes from bernie about michael.. so i dont know why this fuss is about..

[Ali]

Massa has finally given an interview, to erm, the News of the World.

Of all of the newspapers in all of the world why that one?

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/4 ... -coma.html

Shail, do you follow the topic? It's already been posted just two messages before.

that was autosport and the messages are from two different reporters, plus news of the world has got some more quotes from bernie about michael.. so i dont know why this fuss is about..

It's because when you add a new message, members could think that there would be somthing new, rightly so. So, when adding news, it's always better to first search whether it's already inserted or not. Not a fuss, just a small reminder.

And autosport are quoting from news of the world. So, news is from the same source.

[Fergie1]

News of the world is all lies, just lies.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77525

[swca92]

Typical of the News of the World, they landed Mosley in the s**t last year with all the Nazi implications and now this. The paper sucks, today their exclusive was..."The first interview with Peter Andre after his split from Katie Price". If the paper sunk any lower it would be licking dog s**t off pavements.

[phil1993]

Top Gear finished yesterday and handily, its new series returns in November, so someone has some time on his hands...

[JoostLamers]

Top Gear finished yesterday and handily, its new series returns in November, so someone has some time on his hands...

yeah, brillliant!

[phil1993]

Massa has finally given an interview, to erm, the News of the World.

Of all of the newspapers in all of the world why that one?

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/4 ... -coma.html

Shail, do you follow the topic? It's already been posted just two messages before.

that was autosport and the messages are from two different reporters, plus news of the world has got some more quotes from bernie about michael.. so i dont know why this fuss is about..

It's because when you add a new message, members could think that there would be somthing new, rightly so. So, when adding news, it's always better to first search whether it's already inserted or not. Not a fuss, just a small reminder.

And autosport are quoting from news of the world. So, news is from the same source.

You don't mess with the Alios...

[Ali]

Exclusive Massa Interview
by Ferrari S.p.A, All rights reserved

Maranello, August 3 2009 - Felipe Massa has left Budapest this morning at a time of São Paulo in Brazil, which will arrive in the evening. Together with the Brazilian pilot moving his wife Raffaela and its medical staff Dino Altmann and the rest of the family had preceded him yesterday afternoon.

Before being discharged from AEK where he had been hospitalized after the accident occorsogli in the qualifications of the Grand Prix of Hungary, Felipe has granted an exclusive interview at the site of Ferrari.

How do you feel? What do you remember the accident?

'It is a feeling a little' strange. I know exactly what happened, that come off a spring from the car of Rubens struck me on the helmet. I know that something has happened to me but I did not hear anything when it happened. They told me that I have lost knowledge at the time of the spring on the helmet and finished against the barriers then I woke up two days later in hospital. I have memories and I am explaining all that has been done by doctors. When I saw Rob (Smedley, his engineer engineer, ndr), asked me if I remembered to Rubens but the last thing I was reminded of it when I found him at the end of the timed lap in Q2 but then there is no more. I repeat, is a difficult feeling to explain. Now I feel much better and I want to heal in the shortest possible time to get back on track as soon as the wheel of a Ferrari. "

Want to thank someone?

"Firstly, I want to thank God And the doctors on the track and the hospital in Budapest that AEK have done so much for me and Dino Altmann, who came from Brazil with my family and it was extraordinary in those days. My thanks also to everyone who prayed for me, which I have written through my site and that of Ferrari and had hoped that everything goes according to plan. There have been many, even people who perhaps are not interested in Formula 1 but I knew what had happened: I want to thank them and tell them that I pray for them. I too would have done the same thing if an accident had happened to another pilot would have prayed for him, because everything would end well. "

As it was very helpful to have family by your side in these days?

"My family is very important to me. I have always been with me throughout my career, the victories and defeats and in the most difficult moments. In Budapest there was only Eduardo but when the incident happened, everyone - Raffaela, my father, my mother and my sister - have flown to Hungary. Who have suffered so much and I want to thank them for having been close. And then there is another family that I have to thank the Ferrari family have been fantastic, we have helped in every way and be part of this group gives me so much emotion. "

What will be your desire when you first arrived in Brazil?

"Back in my home, see if everything is as before. There are so many things happened in these days and I want to return to a normal life. Recover the best condition, do the things you do every day. "

Now your machine will be for a while 'to Michael Schumacher: What advice do you feel for him?

"Michael does not need my advice! Rather he gave me many suggestions for my career when running together. Sa win, sa great drive and is: was the best choice, giving the car a fantastic person and I am sure that everybody will be happy to see him return to racing. But I hope so to be able to return to the track with Ferrari as soon as possible! "

[JoostLamers]

Wooh, look at his face