felipe massa face after crash 25 07 2009

A bizarre accident during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix put Ferraris Felipe Massa in hospital. He suffered bone damage to his skull after a suspension piece from the Brawn of Rubens Barrichello was thrown into his helmet, ripping away its side and causing an injury just above his left eye.

He was travelling in excess of 150mph when the missile — an internal spring from the rear damper of the Brawn weighing 800 grams — hit him. He immediately lost consciousness, hitting the brake and throttle pedals. The Ferrari raced straight into the tyre barriers on the outside of the Hungarorings turn four.

Massa soon regained consciousness and had to be sedated in the car by medical crew before he was taken by stretcher to the adjacent medical centre. From there, he was flown to a Budapest hospital with skull damage and concussion. An operation on his skull was reported by Ferrari to have been successful last night and he was put into a controlled coma to minimise brain swelling.

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[017RHYS]

all i got to say is that he's very lucky to survive that. improvements to helmets to be considered F1!!!

So glad he's racing again despite this accident.

[ikke3wie3anders3]

@Lights0ut1109 u suck

[CapnredPvP]

Broken eye socket??

[ayrtonsennanism]

please gift me dat useless kart :D

[Lights0ut1109]

this is why F1 sucks

[klepetar]

you watch this and then see the moron bikers who ride with no helmets or those teeny weeny soup bowl helmets.. what a bunch of idiots..

i had an accident once on my bicycle and hit the pavement..had a headache for the whole rest of the summer..besides passing out for about 2 minutes..i was told

[shirfield]

great guy was very funny when they got to hungry this year and he was asked how it feel to be back 12 months later and he and rubens had a joke about poker and rubens said massa got the damaged helemet out and rubens lost and massa said just hope rubens got a stronger spring this year i think it may had been rubens 300th gp cos he was joking wive bruno senna

[Stig215]

you people are retarded...if you enclose the cockpit of a single-seater, it's...uh...how do i put this?...NOT a single-seater anymore...then it's a tintop...and not all the drivers where the same helmets. They wear different brands like Arai or Bell and they all meet the highest of safety specifications. If they made them any tougher they would have to use a different material and then the drivers wouldn't even be able to lift their heads as well as the fact that whiplash will increase with size

[quarzs73]

sell it to him ... :))