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

Zanardi, 53, sus♏tained serious head and facial injuries when he lost control o﷽f his hand bike during a road race in Tuscany and collided with a truck on 19 June.

The Italian 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 facility near Lecco on 21 July after showing signs of i🉐mprovement.

But after Zanardi’s condition deteriorated, 🍎he was tr💫ansferred 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 Professo🌱r 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 issued on Wednesday, the Mi🗹lan hospital said Zanardi is now showing “clinical improvements” during 𓃲his rehabilitation.

"After a period during which he was subjected to intensive care following hospitalisation on 24 Jul💧y the patient responded with significant clinical improvements,” the hospital statement read.

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

Zanardi raced in F1 for Jordan, Minardi, Lotus and Williams in the 1990s but switched to👍 race in the CART Championship in the United States fo🐽llowing 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 l💖egs being amputated.

Zanardi has since return🍃ed to motorsp🎐ort 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.