Formula 1 News

Felipe Massa’s condition improving 

Doctors reveal left eye damage

A spokesman of the Hungarian Defence Ministry has announced earlier this morning that the latest CT scan which Felipe Massa underwent after his dramatic accident in Hungary, had again a positive outcome and ‘hasn’t revealed worrying elements for the doctors‘.

According to the spokesman, Massa has been woken up from sedation and he’s able to communicate actively and he also moves his hands and his legs.

Massa’s wife Raffaela, who is pregnant with the couple’s first child, and his parents spent the night at the AEK Hospital in Budapest. Ferrari President Luca Cordero di Montezemolo is also expected to fly to Budapest this morning to visit the injured Brazilian.

In the meantime, a Brazilian TV broadcaster has suggested that Massa could be transferred this weekend from the Hungarian Hospital to the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris where the President of the Institute for Brain and Spinal Cord Disorders department and Deputy President of the FIA Institute, Professor Gérard Saillant operates. The transfer to the French hospital would have been suggested by former Ferrari team principal Jean Todt whose son Nicolas Todt is Felipe Massa’s manager.

Update: AEK hospital’s doctors have revealed that Felipe Massa suffered damage to his left eye, adding that’s still unknown if the Brazilian will be able to race again.

“Massa has suffered some damage to the eye,” said a doctor. “We don’t know whether he’ll be able to race again.”