Ferrari driver Felipe Massa left the hospital Tuesday and returned home for the first time since a life-threatening crash in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix 10 days earlier.
After spending a night at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo, and undergoing a series of exams, doctors allowed Massa to continue his recovery at home with his relatives.
Doctors said they reevaluated the driver’s condition and concluded there was no need to keep the 28-year-old Brazilian driver in the hospital.
Massa arrived in Brazil on Monday after nine days at the AEK military hospital in Budapest, where he underwent …Â Details
At 40-years-old and with a two year break from grand prix racing behind him, Michael Schumacher is all to aware of the physical demands that will be placed on him when he returns to action at the European Grand Prix in Valencia later this month where he will substitute for the injured Felipe Massa.
The seven times world champion, who took physical fitness levels to new extremes when he was competing in Formula One, has not raced a Formula One car since the 2006 Brazilian Grand Prix, although he tested for Ferrari in April 2008 in his capacity as a consultant to the team.
Schumacher’s comeback began on Friday when he … Details
Kenny Brack came to grips with the end of his professional racing career on a May afternoon in 2005, when he climbed out of an Indy-car and decided he was “back to normal.â€
So…what in the wide world of Action Sports is Brack doing in the X Games 15 Rally Competition? Acting like a 43-year-old rookie but driving like an Indianapolis 500 champion – a combination that could produce a contradiction for the ages Sunday afternoon.
Brack, the 1999 Indy 500 winner, earned the No. 1 seed during time trials Friday by touring a man-made rally course in …Â Details
Michael Schumacher was back in the cockpit of a Formula One car on Friday — and it felt good.
The seven-time F1 champion borrowed an old Ferrari to test his form ahead of a comeback to F1 as substitute driver for the injured Felipe Massa.
“A great feeling to be back in an F1 car,” Schumacher said after testing it on the Mugello circuit. “After a few laps, I was able to drive constant times and I am quite happy with the time I did.”
The 40-year-old German organized the test to check his physical condition and drove a privately owned Ferrari model used in the 2007 season, company spokesman Luca Colajanni said.
Schumacher could not drive the current Ferrari car due to …Â Details