Ex-Formula 1 driver Alex Zanardi’s health has shown “significant clinical improvements” ♏as he continues to recover from the hand bike accident he suffered in June.

Zanardi, 5🦩3, sustained serious head and facial injuries when he lost control of his hand bike during a road race in Tuscany and collided with a truck💜 on 19 June.

The Italiꦰan has since undergone four operations and was initially treated at the Santa Maria all Scotte hospital in Sienna, before being moved to the Villa Beretta rehabilitation facil🥃ity near Lecco on 21 July after showing signs of improvement.

Bu🐲t after Zanardi’s condition deteriorated, he was transferred to the intensive care unit at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan on 24 July.

Here he was operated on for a fourth time by Professor Pietro♕ Mortini, with the hospital confirming in its previous update that the surgery had been a success and Zanardi was stable.

In its latest update is♊sued on Wednesday, the Milan hospital said Zanardi is now showing “clinical improvements” during his rehabilitation.

"After a period during which he was subjected to inte꧙nsive care following hospitalisation on 24 July the pati🃏ent responded with significant clinical improvements,” the hospital statement read.

"For this reason, he is currently assisted and treated with semi-intensive care at the Neurorℱeanimation Unit, directed by Professor Luigi Beretta.”

Zanardi raced in F1 for J✅ordan, Minardi, Lotus and Williams in the 1990s but switched to race in the CART Championship in the United States following a difficult stint in grand prix racing.

He went on to become CART champion before suffering a horrific accident at the Lausitzring in 2001 which resulted in both his legsꦬ being amputated.

Zanardi has since returned to motoཧrsport in specially-adapted cars, while he has also won four olympic gold medals at the 2012 and 2016 games in London and Rio de Janeiro for his efforts in Para-cycling.