my favourite ♥♥
thank god you're fine ((:
hello pipper :D:D:D:D:D:D
yea, i'm back again ((: have been studying almost everyday because of my prelim .. but it's ending real real soon, last paper already ;D when we finish our prelims, other schools will be preparing for theirs .. our school is damn early right? should get use to it! i'm so going to flunk my science (-.-) no confidence in it at all! but at least i know where i stand for my science so i can work harder for 'Os'! tomorrow i'll be going out with my girls! (yayness) 18chef, i'm coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
been reading news about my FAV~ he's recovering well and going back to Brazil, his home .. hope he can come back quick to his ferrari and perform his best! ;D but for the time-being, the seven-time world champion (Michael Schumacher) is back to take his place for the race ((: (cool)
monday, 03.08.2009
Massa on his way home to Brazil
As expected, Ferrari’s Felipe Massa left hospital in Budapest on Monday, less than ten days after suffering a fractured skull during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Massa is now flying home to his native Brazil, where he will continue his recuperation.
Massa underwent emergency surgery at the AEK military hospital after he was struck by a loose spring from another car. He spent several days in an artificial coma, before being released from intensive care last Wednesday.
News agency Reuters reported that Massa was seen smiling and shaking hands with officials at Budapest's Ferihegy International Airport, as he walked aboard a private jet ahead of the journey to Sao Paolo. It is hoped he will make a full recovery, though no date has been set for his return to competition.
Ferrari are planning to replace Massa with former driver Michael Schumacher for the forthcoming European Grand Prix and the seven-time champion has already begun testing in preparation for his comeback. Schumacher retired at the end of 2006.
Felipe Massa: I hope I’ll be back on track soon
Ferrari’s Felipe Massa left Budapest on Monday morning to travel home to Brazil, less than ten days after his accident in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix, accompanied by his wife Raffaela and his personal doctor Dino Altmann. Before leaving the AEK hospital, where he has been recovering from his injuries, Massa gave Ferrari his first interview since the Hungaroring crash…
Q: How do you feel? What do you remember from the accident?
Felipe Massa: It is sort of a strange feeling. I know exactly what happened, that a spring came off Rubens' car and hit me on the helmet. I know that something happened to me, but I didn't feel anything when it happened. They told me that I lost consciousness at the moment of the spring's impact on my helmet and I ran into the barriers, then I woke up in hospital two days later. I don't remember anything and that's why what the doctors did had to be explained to me. When I saw Rob (Smedley, his race engineer), he asked me if I remembered Rubens, but the last thing I remembered was when I was behind him at the end of my fast lap in Q2, and than it's blank. It's difficult to explain. I'm feeling much better now and I want to recover as soon as possible to get back behind the wheel of a Ferrari.
Q: Do you want to thank anyone?
FM: First of all I want to thank God. Then I want to thank the doctors at the race track and at Budapest's AEK hospital, who have done a lot for me, and Dino Altmann, who came with my family from Brazil and who was extraordinary over the last days. But I also want to thank everybody who prayed and who wrote to me via my own and Ferrari's website, hoping that everything went well. So many people wrote to me, also many who aren't interested in Formula One, but had heard about what happened to me: thank you so much and I want to tell them that I'm praying also for them. I would have done the same if an accident had happened to another driver: I would have prayed for him that everything went well.
Q: How much help was the fact that your family was here over the last days?
FM: My family is important to me. They have always been close to me during my career, victories and defeats, and the most difficult moments. There was only (brother) Edoardo at Budapest, but when the accident happened Raffaela, my father, my mother and then my sister came to Hungary. I know that they've suffered a lot and I want to thank them. And then there's another family I have to thank: the Ferrari family. They were great, they helped us in any possible way and it's a great thing to be part of this group.
Q: What's your first wish when you get back to Brazil?
FM: 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.
Q: For a while your car will be driven by Michael Schumacher: do you have any advice for him?
FM: Michael doesn't need my advice! It was him who gave me many tips during my career when we were racing together. He knows how to win, he knows how to drive and he's great: it was the best choice handing over the car to such a fantastic person and I'm sure that everybody will be happy to see him back on the track again. Although I hope I'll be back on the track with Ferrari as soon as possible.
Michael Schumacher: it’s great to be back
Michael Schumacher was back behind the wheel of a Formula One car on Friday, as he began on-track preparations for his planned comeback later this month. Schumacher is expected to stand in for the injured Felipe Massa in the European Grand Prix.
With the in-season test ban ruling out a run in this year’s F60, Schumacher used a privately-owned 2007 car to complete 67 laps of Ferrari’s Mugello circuit in Italy.
“It's a great thing getting back on the track,” said the German, “even if this was a car from 2007 from the F1 Clienti department with slicks usually used in GP2 and obviously there is no real point of reference.
"After a couple of laps I was able to drive constant lap times and I'm happy with the performance. Now we've got to see how my body and the muscles respond in the next days.”
Schumacher will now continue with a special programme of training designed to ensure he is fit enough to compete at Valencia on August 23. Ferrari have also asked their fellow teams for special permission to allow the seven-time world champion to test the F60 ahead of the Spanish race.
Following his Mugello outing, Schumacher travelled to Budapest on Saturday to visit Massa. The Brazilian, who sustained a fractured skull after being hit by a spring from another car in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix, left the AEK military hospital on Monday to travel home to Sao Paulo.
look at his face, poor thing man D:
his dad and bro (they all look the same :D)
fire fire fire at yew tee~
i washed my bag and the water turns to this colour
i drew this ! :D (so proud of myself)
i didn't know that camwhoring is so fun! xD (do excuse our retard-ness)
goodnight and goodbye pipper :D
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