Alex Zanardi has left hospita🍷l for the first time since he was involved in a serious accident while training on his handbike and transferred to a ‘specialised recovery and functionality rehabilitation centre’.

The ex-Lotus and Williams F1 driver was training in his native Ital🌟y when he was involved in a collision with a truck near Siena on June 19, suffering a serious head injury that necessitated he be kept in an induced coma for a period of time.

However, his condition has ⛄improved to the extent that doctors at the Santa Maria alle Scotte hospital have decreased his sedation, adding ‘the normality of the cardio-respiratory and metabolic par🐎ameters, the stability of the general clinical conditions and the neurological picture’ allowed him to be transferred to a rehabilitation facility.

“Our professionals remain at the disposal of this extraordinary person and his family for the furth🌃er stages of clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic development, as 🐼always happens in these cases,” said hospital general manager Valtere Giovannini

"I sincerely thank the multidisciplinary team that took care of Zanardi putting in place a great profes🅠sionalism, recognised nationally and beyond.

🧔"The athlete spent over a month in our hospital: he underwent three delicate surgeries and showed a path of stability of his clinical conditions and vital parameters that allowed the reduction and suspension of sedation, and the consequent possibility to be transferred to a facility for the necessarཧy neuro-rehabilitation."

No information has been released regarding his o🍌verall condition or the timeframe expected for his recovery.

As well as his achievementsཧ in F1, Zanardi won two CART series championships prior to a serious accident that resulted in his legs being amputated. Despite this, Zanardi not only returned to motorsport with success in sportscars and touring cars, he re-established himself as a world-class athlete, winning four paracycling Olympic gold medals.