<div id="subtitle">Ferrari's Felipe Massa makes return to F1 with 1st drive since life-threatening crash</div><div><p>Felipe Massa returned to a competitive Formula One car Monday and the Ferrari driver was fastest in a morning testing session — his first since a life-threatening crash last summer.</p><p>Massa led the seven-car field at Valencia's Cheste Circuit with a best lap time of 1 minute, 13.088 seconds. Massa, who completed 32 laps, was nearly two-tenths of a second faster than Pedro De la Rosa of Sauber.</p><p>Massa suffered a skull fracture during a crash at the Hungarian Grand Prix last July. The 28-year-old Brazilian underwent surgery and missed the remainder of the season.</p><p>Massa has driven several older model Ferraris since late last year, but Monday's outing was the first in the new F10 car.</p><p>Ferrari set the pace as F1's 2010 campaign got under way, with Michael Schumacher expected to return to the track with Mercedes GP later Monday. The 41-year-old German is racing again for the first time since retiring in 2006.</p><p>Teammate Nico Rosberg was on the track in the morning and was third with a best lap of 1:13.543 in the former Brawn GP car — nearly half a second back of Massa.</p><p>McLaren test driver Gary Paffett was fourth, Rubens Barrichello of Williams was fifth, while Renault driver Robert Kubica and Toro Rosso's Sebastien Buemi completed the standings.</p><p>Massa will also drive Tuesday before giving way to new teammate Fernando Alonso a day later.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=68246559&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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