2001 World Rally champion Richard Burns has been discharged from hospital, as he co💯ntinues his battle against cancer, according to his co-driver, Robert Reid, while he still 🅠has 'a fair way to go', he is 'making progress'.

Speaking to BBC Sport Online Re🥃id added that ♐it has been a 'big shock' seeing the Englishman so ill.

Burns was forced to miss the Wales Rally GB last year, after collapsing at the wheel of his car en-route to the event. He was later diagnosed with 𒀰an astrocytoma - a form of brain tumour - which meant he has been forced to sit out the current season, where he was due to drive alongside current world champion, Pett🐎er Solberg at Subaru.

"Richard has improved to the point wher🌟e he's💮 at home," commented Reid.

"At the beginnin🧔g of January, he'd lost a hell of a lot of weight.

"He couldn't get out of bed for a while.

"🎀I think the feeling of the people close to him at the moment is we are making progress, but that we've still got a fair way to go."

"It's been a big shock," adde𓄧d Reid. "I've seen him very, very il🐬l.

"But there have been a lot of g🅷reat moments, things that feel almost as good as winning a world championship rally, but they're very small, very personal things, just to see somebody making an improvement."