Ferrari team leader Stefano Domenicali leaves the AEK hospital where Felipe Massa is being treated.

Photograph: Karoly Arvai/Reuters

Ferrari's Felipe Massa remained in a "life‑threatening" but stable condition tonight despite "reassuring" results of his surgery on multiple skull fractures, a doctor said. Peter Bazso, the AEK hospital medical director, said Massa would remain sedated until tomorrow, but would be woken up periodically. When asked if Massa's life remained in danger, Bazso said: "Yes, of course." He said doctors were able to "remove the broken bones and stabilise the area", which was necessary as Massa arrived with "an open skull fracture and a contusion". He did not specify how long recovery would take, or whether there would be long-term effects, but added that a CT scan showed "expected results" for such an operation. Massa's parents and pregnant wife Anna Rafaela arrived at the hospital today from Brazil, and doctors woke Massa temporarily to check on his condition and so that he could see his family