Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali says Felipe Massa could start karting next week as his comeback bid from a near-fatal head injury gathers pace.
The Brazilian, 28, suffered a fractured skull at the Hungarian GP in July when a spring flew off Rubens Barrichello's Brawn car and hit him.
Massa had indicated he would return in a karting event in late November.
But Domenicali said: "He is working hard on training and next week he should go into the karting activity."
Ferrari initially stated that Massa, who recently had plastic surgery on the injury sustained when the spring hit him on the helmet above his left eye during qualifying for the Hungarian GP, would return to Formula 1 in 2010.
But such has been his progress that Domenicali has refused to rule out the possibility of him appearing again before the season is out.
There are three races left in 2009, with the finale in Abu Dhabi on 1 November.
"It is too early to say [whether he might race again this year]," Domenicali said after Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix.
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I don't want to exclude anything, but we need to be cautious
Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali
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"I don't want to exclude anything, but we need to be cautious. We need to see it step by step, and we don't have to anticipate anything.
"He will be back 100%, but there is no need to anticipate anything if there is something that is not ready."
He added: "Every day he is doing a check with his doctor, but not an official medical check."
It is an open secret within F1 that Massa's team-mate at Ferrari next year will be Fernando Alonso, whose switch to the team is expected to be announced imminently.
The word in the paddock at the Singapore Grand Prix last weekend was that Kimi Raikkonen, who was contracted to stay at Ferrari until the end of 2010, would move to McLaren as team-mate to Lewis Hamilton and that Alonso's place at Renault would be filled by BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica.
Massa's karting comeback is geared towards the International Challenge of the Stars event Massa is set to star in on 28 November in Florianopolis, which features drivers from different motorsport categories including F1, Indy racing and stock cars.
Michael Schumacher and Barrichello are also expected to take part.
Giancarlo Fisichella, meanwhile, will continue to deputise for Massa with Ferrari, though the Italian is not finding it easy to adapt to the car after switching from Force India following the Belgian GP at the end of August.
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