The medic's at Budapest's AEK hospital presented a chart of Felipe Massa's condition and all the exams done by the Hungarian medical team were negative, which is a further confirmation of the encouraging signs over the last hours. The Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro driver, who's no longer artificially ventilated, has now met his family and answered their many questions.

As far as his left eye is concerned, there have been reports that the optical nerve could be damaged and his doctors confirmed that close evaluation has to be done over the next days before they can say one way or the other what the long term outlook may be. Some media outlets are reporting that his F1 career is over, well, this is not the case at this point in time, but highly possible that he may be forced to sit out the final seven rounds of the current season.

"He has suffered some damage to the eye. We don't know if he'll be able to race again," surgeon Robert Veres said. "I don't know (if he can return). It's too early to say about his future. We don't know the extent of the damage. Without an operation it's very hard to evaluate its function."

Felipe now sleeps without the help of sedatives with his wife, his parents, his brother and his friend and manager Nicolas Todt by his side. They will spend another night in hospital and will meet up with Ferrari boss, Stefano Domenicali, later today.