Felipe Massa is determined to return to racing "as soon as possible" after being released from hospital on Monday morning.
Brazilian feeling 'much better' after Hungary incident
Felipe Massa is determined to return to racing "as soon as possible" after being released from hospital on Monday morning.
Massa has spent the past nine days at the AEK Hospital in Budapest recovering from the injuries sustained in his Hungarian qualifying accident.
The 28-year-old, who has knock unconscious after being hit on the helmet by a spring that had come loose from Rubens Barrichello's BGP001, suffered a fractured skull and brain concussion in the accident and had to be put in a medically induced coma for the first 48 hours.
"It is sort of a strange feeling. I know exactly what happened, that a spring came off Rubens' car and hit me on the helmet. I know that something happened to me, but I didn't feel anything when it happened," he said of the accident.
"They told me that I lost consciousness at the moment of the spring's impact on my helmet and I ran into the barriers, then I woke up in hospital two days later. I don't remember anything and that's why what the doctors did had to be explained to me.
Feeling better
"When I saw Rob (Smedley, his race engineer), he asked me if I remembered Rubens, but the last thing I remembered was when I was behind him at the end of my fast lap in Q2, and than it's blank. It's difficult to explain.
"I'm feeling much better now and I want to recover as soon as possible to get back behind the wheel of a Ferrari."
Massa has thanked his fans and all those who offered him support during this trying time for both himself and his family.
"First of all I want to thank God. Then I want to thank the doctors at the race track and at Budapest's AEK hospital, who have done a lot for me, and Dino Altmann, who came with my family from Brazil and who was extraordinary over the last days," he said.
"But I also want to thank everybody who prayed and who wrote to me via my own and Ferrari's website, hoping that everything went well. So many people wrote to me, also many who aren't interested in Formula 1, but had heard about what happened to me: thank you so much and I want to tell them that I'm praying also for them.
"I would have done the same if an accident had happened to another driver: I would have prayed for him that everything went well."
Seven-time World Champion Michael Schumacher has already been announced as Massa's replacement at Ferrari with the Brazilian conceding that Ferrari could not have made a better choice.
"Michael doesn't need my advice! It was him who gave me many tips during my career when we were racing together," he said.
"He knows how to win, he knows how to drive and he's great: it was the best choice handing over the car to such a fantastic person and I'm sure that everybody will be happy to see him back on the track again.
"Although I hope I'll be back on the track with Ferrari as soon as possible."
