Felipe Massa is set to leave hospital ahead of schedule, according to his personal doctor in Budapest. The injured but recovering Ferrari driver should be well enough to fly back to his home in Brazil at the start of next week.
The original diagnosis from the AEK hospital in Budapest, where Massa is being treated, was that he would only be ready to leave at the end of next week, but Dino Altmann, Massa's personal doctor at the hospital, has confirmed that he will fly out in a private plane on Monday.
"Felipe continues to improve, he is doing very well, and we already decided to go back home on Monday to Brazil," Altmann shouted at a bunch of journalists outside the hospital, where Massa has been since being airlifted there from the Hungaroring after his crash on Saturday.
Altmann confirmed that: "He will fly to Sao Paulo." Presumably in a plane.
He added that "there was no need" for Massa to meet with the FIA Institute deputy president Gerard Saillant's clinic in Paris, saying: "He has to continue his recovery and go back racing as soon as possible, that's the plan. No special treatment.
"He is in very good mood, he is in good shape. He wants to come back soon."
Meanwhile, the returning "Schumacher is a cheat" gang will be buoyed by news on the returning Schumacher. The seven-time champion spent the day tearing around Mugello in a 2007-spec Ferrari in an attempt to get some legal mileage under his belt before his expected return at the European Grand Prix.
But it was revealed tonight that Ferrari have submitted a request to their rival teams for Schumacher to be allowed to test a 2009-spec car, despite the current in-season testing ban. If Schumacher is granted a day in the F60 in an attempt to acclimatise himself with this new breed of F1 car, expect the internet to fill up with Ferrari International Assistance rants at a reassuringly pre-2007 rate.
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