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BBC Sport’s Sarah Holt at the Hungaroring: "Ferrari will not be replacing Felipe Massa in today’s race. The sport’s rules say a team can change a driver “any time before the start of qualifying” and that “additional changes for reasons of force majeure will be considered separately”. Although Massa’s crash was certainly caused by a “greater force”, the team haven’t considered running nominated reserve driver Marc Gene, most likely out of respect for Massa. Gene and fellow Italian Luca Badoer are Ferrari’s reserve drivers while seven-time Michael Schumacher is also on the books in an advisory role. And just so you know, any team can use up to four drivers in one season."1159: Bit of a serious start to the day eh I make no apologies for that, but we are going to try to turn our attention to today’s race - although we’ll of course bring you any news about Massa as soon as we hear it. The Brazilian would have been 10th on the grid, but in his absence, Sebastien Buemi and all the drivers behind him will move up a place.1152: Another interesting line from Brundle’s column: “I don’t like to use the term ‘freak accident’ because there’s an inevitability about periodic fatal incidents in motor racing and in life.” That seems to the the thrust of many of your texts so far. Hard to see how the sport can be made safer. There has been talk of providing more protection around the cockpit, but asDavid Coulthard says in his BBC Sport column,the open cockpit “is the essence of single-seater racing”.1144: Massa’s accident came only six days after 18-year-old Henry Surtees was killed when he was struck by a loose wheel during an F2 race. Martin Brundle was at that race and was standing next to Henry’s father and motor racing legend John Surtees when the accident happened. “Henry’s accident seems so unfair,” writes Brundlein an eloquent and heart-wrenching column for the Sunday Times, which I recommend everyone reads.“John Surtees survived the sport’s most perilous times. Yet his son is taken in an era where motor racing is infinitely safer and in a category in which it’s difficult to conceive how the cars could be made much safer.”
From Pete in Stoke, via text on 81111: "I think I speak on behalf of all F1 fans when I send my best wishes to Felipe and to wish him a speedy recovery."Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali speaking on Sunday morning: "The condition of Felipe is stable, there were no complications during the night. Now we are waiting to do another CT scan - after that we will have more information, and this is what we can say at the moment. We are thanking all the medical staff here (at the AEK military hospital) for the operation, they are working very well."1137: Just in case you haven’t heard the latest, Massa’s condition is being described as “stable”. He has been sedated since having surgery yesterday and will be woken today before having another brain scan. The FIAwill conduct an investigation into the incident.1130: Hello. Nineteen drivers are preparing for race 10 of the 2009 season this morning. The 20th is recovering in hospitalfollowing emergency surgery as a result of a skull fracture.Get well soon, Felipe Massa. Very soonThis article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.