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Porsche driver Mark Webber has been released from hospital in the wake of his accident in the closing stages of Sunday's World Endurance Championship finale at Interlagos.

The Australian, who was kept in the Bandeirantes hospital overnight on Sunday after sustaining concussion and bruising in the crash, was discharged on Monday night.

He is expected to remain in Brazil for a couple of days before he is cleared to fly home to the UK.

Matteo Cressoni, whose AF Corse-run 8Star Ferrari was also involved in the accident at Turn 14 with 26 minutes of the race to run, was released from the same hospital on Monday afternoon and travelled home to Italy in the evening.

A cause for the accident, of which Webber has no recollection, has yet to be given, but Webber tweeted on Monday that he "was a lucky boy".

"The correct angle of impact saved me," he said.

The race was won by the #14 Porsche 919 Hybrid of Neel Jani, Marc Lieb and Romain Dumas, which notched up the German manufacturer's first outright victory in a world championship endurance race since 1989.