The Brazilian saying he's practically back to normal.

“This is good, because you can see that nothing has changed. My sight, at the beginning my eyes were [swollen], I couldn't use my left eye and today it's back to 100%. So I'm happy that everything that happened didn't change me at all," Felipe Massa said, AP news agency reports.

Massa has hinted several times since the accident that he would like to return for the season-finale Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on November 1, but Ferrari have confirmed that the Brazilian will not race again until next season.

Massa was out of racing after a crash in the second round of qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix On July 25.

He was struck on the helmet by a suspension spring that had fallen off from countryman Rubens Barrichello’s Brawn GP on a high-speed part of the track. He subsequently crashed head-on into a tire barrier.

Massa was delivered to a hospital in Budapest, where he underwent surgery in the area surrounding his left eye. His condition was initially described as “life-threatening but stable,” but improved rapidly and returned to Brazil the following week.