Felipe Massa is aiming to make his grand prix comeback in his home race in Brazil, the penultimate round of this year's world championship which takes place on October 18, meaning he will have been out of action for just under three months and missed five races.

The final round of the this year's championship takes place in Abu Dhabi a fortnight after the Brazilian Grand Prix, meaning that Massa, who is recovering at home from the head injuries he suffered in Hungary, will hope to undertake two more races this year. Massa is currently being replaced in the #3 car by the team's test driver Luca Badoer, who has been confirmed for the European Grand Prix in Valencia this coming weekend and the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps which takes place a week later.

In an interview with Brazilian TV network Globo, Massa said: "I cannot wait to race again, I hope I can do the Brazilian Grand Prix. But it is not for me to say, it's for the doctors, and I have to show I can be ready for the grand prix. I think I am going to do some laps in a go-kart beforehand, then I will go to the FIA to do the examinations and get the authorisation to come back to racing." Massa will have to pass a full FIA medical examination and satisfy doctors that he is fully ready to race before he will be given the green light to get back in the cockpit during a grand prix weekend.

"I lived the accident but I slept," Massa said, telling Globo that he had no recollection at all of his dramatic crash at the Hungaroring. "I didn't see the spring. Many people ask me 'the spring came, did you not see it?' But I didn't see it hit me, I didn't see anything. The spring just hit my head and I slept. The car crashed and I carried on accelerating but it almost wasn't me that was doing it. It looks like I move my hands, but I was sleeping. When I woke in hospital, I felt that everything was working. I saw that my eye was really really big, but I was breathing and thinking. I could move my arms, I could move my legs, I could move everything."

The spring in fact fell off the rear of the Brawn-Mercedes of fellow Brazilian driver Rubens Barrichello, but there are no issues between the two and they remain friends. "Not at all," Massa said. "He didn't even know that I was behind him. It's not a problem at all. We are really good friends and what happened was going to happen, it could have been the spring from anyone." Barrichello has visited Massa at his home this week.

Massa also thanked the fans for the tremendous levels of support that he has received since the accident. "I had an idea, but the moment I got back to Brazil after the accident everyone was clapping me and shouting and hoping for me to get better and come back and race. It's a unique feeling and I keep saying 'thank you' all the time," he added. Massa was also visited over the weekend by Ferrari Team Principal Stefano Domenicali.