Felipe Massa moves on from Hungary horror of five years ago

Five years after a freak Hungarian Grand Prix accident left him in a coma with near-fatal head injuries, Felipe Massa returns this weekend looking to put much more recent crashes behind him.

The 33-year-old Brazilian remembers nothing of that 2009 drama, when he was hit on the helmet - on the corner of the visor - by a bouncing spring shed from compatriot Rubens Barrichello's Brawn in front during qualifying.

He was saved that day by a few millimetres.

That incident and the former Ferrari driver's remarkable recovery will always be a talking point in his career but Massa, now with resurgent Williams, is much more focused on the here and now.

So much so that asked about 2009, the Brazilian assumed the question related to his first-corner collision in Germany last Sunday.

"Yeah, I feel the accident and it was really a shame to be honest. To have an accident like that on the first corner was really a shame, but we need to think forward, about this weekend," he said.