Recovering Massa craves normality

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Massa was transported from Budapest's AEK military hospital to the city's airport via ambulance prior to boarding a private jet and heading home to Sao Paulo with pregnant wife Raffaela and personal doctor Dino Altmann.

The 28-year-old, who will now continue his recuperation from a fractured skull surrounded by family and friends in his home city, told Ferrari's official website: "Many things have happened over the last days and I want to get back to a normal life. I want to get back into the best possible condition, doing things you do every day."

Massa, giving his first official interview since his accident in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix, still has no recollection of the crash.

Massa was struck on the helmet, just over his left eye, at 162mph by a suspension spring that had worked loose off the Brawn GP car of compatriot Rubens Barrichello before ploughing into a tyre barrier.

With the area around his left eye obviously swollen, and sporting a long healing cut, Massa added: "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.

"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.

"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 then it's blank.

"It's difficult to explain, but I'm feeling much better now and I want to recover as soon as possible to get back behind the wheel of a Ferrari."