Massa waved to photographers just before being admitted to the Albert Einstein Hospital in South America’s biggest city, where he is expected to stay for at least two days to undergo further exams.
“Thanks,” he said briefly. “I can’t talk, I still have to recover.”
Massa arrived on Monday evening on a private jet accompanied by his wife, Raffaela, who is six months pregnant with their first child, and family doctor Dino Altmann.
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