BUDAPEST, Hungary � 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, Raffaela, who six months pregnant with their first child, and family doctor Dino Altman.

�Many things have happened over the last days and I want to get back to a normal life,� Massa said in an interview on Ferrari�s Web site. �I want to get back into the best possible condition � doing things you do every day.�
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.
The 28-year-old Massa underwent surgery on multiple skull fractures after he was hit in the helmet by a loose part from another car and crashed into a protective tire barrier on Aug. 25.
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.
�Michael doesn�t need my advice,� Massa said. �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.�