Massa & Schumacher Win In Brazil
Ferrari’s Felipe Massa and former team mate Michael Schumacher completed a one-two finish in a kart race on Sunday in the Brazilian’s first competitive event since his life-threatening accident in July. Race organiser Massa, who suffered a serious head injury during qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix and missed the rest of the Formula One season, won Sunday’s race ahead of record seven-times world champion Schumacher.
The German lifted the title in the International Challenge of Go-Kart Champions following a victory on Saturday. Massa, third on Saturday, was overall runner-up in the event held in Florianopolis in southern Brazil.
"It’s fantastic to do a one-two with Felipe. It was like in the old days," Schumacher told reporters after the race in which other current and former F1 drivers took part, including Rubens Barrichello and Force India’s Italian Vitantonio Liuzzi. The 28-year-old Massa will return to Formula One for Ferrari next season alongside Spain’s Fernando Alonso.
By Reuters
Massa To Return To Karting
Felipe Massa has revealed he is hoping to make his competitive racing return at the famous Brazilian Granja Viana endurance kart race in Sao Paulo late this year. The famous 500-mile event is scheduled for early December; more than four months after the Ferrari driver began his recovery from serious head injuries sustained during qualifying for July’s Hungarian Grand Prix.
But Massa, 28, told Brazil’s UOL Esporte that he will only be trackside "if the doctors give me permission". He told Italian Sky TV earlier this week that his condition continues to improve but he has not yet been given clearance to resume any physical training.
"I wish I could be on the track tomorrow because I’m bored," joked Massa, who only recently had skull surgery to repair the area on his forehead damaged when it was struck by a flying suspension spring in Budapest. "It’s not for me to say when, but rather the doctors and the FIA. Actually I could drive already; everything is as it was before (the crash), including the vision. "The problem is safety, because of the risk of having another accident," he added. Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has said Massa will certainly be racing at the season opener of the 2010 world championship.
By MotorSport