The Brazilian driver Felipe Massa of Ferrari, seriously injured in qualifications GP of Hungary July 25, said Sunday in a British tabloid that he “is lucky to be alive” but he had run well again.
“I know I’m lucky to be alive,” said Massa, 28 years, the weekly News of the World. I do not remember anything of the accident, but I will run again. ”
Felipe Massa
Struck more than 250 km / h in the helmet by a piece of the single spring of his friend and compatriot Rubens Barrichello (GP Brawn) who preceded him, Massa was built straight into a tire wall at 190 km / h. Operated from a fractured skull, it was placed two days in an artificial coma.
According to information provided by his personal physician, Dr. Dino Altmann, it is now “on the road to recovery” and should leave the hospital Monday where he is Hungarian soigné make back his convalescence in Brazil.
“When I woke up, I did not know I was in the hospital, so I asked ‘where am I?”. I tirais all tubes and Eduardo, my brother tried to stop myself ” said Massa, who will be replaced at the end of August in Valencia by the seven times world champion Michael Schumacher.
“The accident was really bad luck, but I know I’m lucky to be alive. It was my race. When I woke up, I could not believe when they told me that Lewis (Hamilton) had won and Kimi (Raikkonen) was second,” he insisted.
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