Felipe Massa with his race engineer Rob Smedley in the Ferrari garage at the Hungaroring a week and a half ago, prior to his accident. Now the Brazilian is being allowed to go home.

Felipe Massa has been cleared by doctors in São Paulo to continue his convalescence at home just a week and a half after his dramatic accident at the Hungaroring following a examination at the Albert Einstein hospital. "More good news about Felipe Massa's health," was how Ferrari kicked off a press release yesterday to announce the developments. The Brazil F1 driver arrived in São on Monday night and was examined by doctors yesterday who released him, Ferrari confirmed.

"Felipe has had a remarkable recovery," Dino Altmann, his personal doctor, said. "We did a series of in-depth tests and the outcome is very encouraging so that we, together with the hospital's medical staff, decided that it wouldn't be currently necessary to further intervene from a surgical point of view. The best thing for him now is to go back home, where he can calmly convalesce and rehabilitate."

Before he left Hungary Massa commented in an official Ferrari interview that he was looking forward to returning to Brazil. "Coming back to my home, checking that everything is as it was before. 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."

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