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Ferrari driver Felipe Massa is on his way home to Brazil, nine days after a life-threatening crash during qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix. Massa is expected to arrive in Sao Paulo on Monday evening, accompanied on a private jet by his wife. Many things have happened over the last days and I want to get back to a normal life,'' Massa said in an interview. Massa, who said he was feeling well aside from some swelling around his damaged left eye, left the AEK military hospital where he was being treated and will be transported in a helicopter from Sao Paulo airport to a local hospital. He is expected to undergo further tests there and is likely to stay for about two days before being allowed to return to his home. He will be replaced at Ferrari by record seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, who visited Massa on Saturday at his Budapest hospital and is coming out of retirement to race.
