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Injured Formula One driver Felipe Massa left his Hungarian hospital and boarded his private jet on Monday to return home to Brazil.
Massa was accompanied by his wife Rafaela and his doctor Dino Altman. His jet flew out of the Hungarian capital Budapest for Sao Paulo.
Massa will go to a Brazilian hospital for check-ups, his father Luiz Antonio Massa said earlier.
The 28-year-old Ferrari driver had been taken to Budapest's AEK hospital on July 25 after a horror crash during qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
The Brazilian was struck by a suspension spring which had worked its way off Rubens Barrichello's Brawn GP, resulting in Massa crashing his Ferrari into a tyre barrier in qualifying in Budapest.
Massa underwent surgery on his fractured skull but was able to get up and walk around within a few days. His doctors have said his condition continues to improve.
Meanwhile, seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher has agreed to return to racing to fill in for his friend at Ferrari, starting with the European Grand Prix in Valencia on August 23.
Schumacher announced he is looking forward to the challenge of replacing Massa at forthcoming grands prix.
"I met with Stefano Domenicali and Luca di Montezemolo and together we decided that I will prepare myself to take the place of Felipe," the 40-year-old German, who retired in 2006, said.
Schumacher hung up his helmet as a record-holding seven time world champion and winner of 91 grands prix and insists he has never regretted his decision.
"Though it is true that the Formula One chapter was completely closed for me a long time ago, it is also true that for loyalty reasons to the team I cannot ignore (this) unfortunate situation," he added.
"But as the competitor I am I also very much look forward to facing this challenge," said Schumacher.
Ferrari also confirmed the news, following reports in the respectively German and Swiss newspapers.
The Italian team said it will enter Schumacher as the alternative competitor of Massa's car number 3 following a training programme for the German, who earlier this year hurt his neck in a motorcycle testing crash.
"I really can't tell you if his neck would be fine to drive an F1 race ... and remember he is a 40-year-old man, too," Schumacher's spokeswoman Sabine Kehm said.
Schumacher has stepped back into a Formula 1 car this week. Following time in Fiat's static simulator in Turin, he completed 67 laps of the Mugello track in the F2007 Ferrari. The car was Kimi Raikonnen's former title winning car.
Schumacher said:_"It's a great thing getting back on the track with an F1 even if this was a car from 2007 from the F1 Clienti department with slicks usually used in GP2 and obviously there is no real point of reference.
"Although those cars are not current or last year's ones, I simply like to drive as much as possible, so this is a good option. The next weeks will be totally on preparation then.
"After a couple of laps I was able to drive constant lap times and I'm happy with the performance.
"Now we've got to see how my body and the muscles respond in the next days."
l The 2009 rules preventing in season testing mean that Michael would not able to test the current F60 Ferrari F1 car prior to practice in Valencia on August 21. Ferrari has submitted an application to the other teams and the FIA asking if they would allow him an exemption to test the car for one day before this date.
