Former F1 driver and Paralympic gold medallist Alex Zanardi has been moved back to intensive care in hospital just days after being transferred to a specialist recovery🐲 unit.

The Italian, 53, suffered serious injuries in a collision with a truck while training on a🌊 handbike on 19 June.

After three operations at Siena hospital, he was placed in an induced coma but was having h💛is sedation gradually decreased, resulting in enough of an improvement to allow a move to a specialist recovery centre on Tuesday.

However, a deterioration i🐓n his condition since then has forced Zanardi to return to hospital and intensive care💫, with doctors describing his condition as ‘unstable’.

He is now being cared for at 🃏Milan’s Sa💦n Raffaele hospital.

In motorsport terms, Zanardi is best-known for his stints with Lotus and Williams in F1,ဣ while he also competed with Jordan and Minardi, though he has enjoye🍷d the majority of his success on American shores, clinching the CART open-wheel titles in 1997 and 1998.

However, a horrific accident while competing in a CART race in Germ꧋any in 2001 resulted in serious injuries and the decision to amputated both of his legs.

Undeterred, Zanardi returned to motorsport and proceeded t🧸o carve out a race-winning career in the World Touring Car Championship and in Sportscars,

He’d go on to dovetailing his motorsport commitments by taking up Para-cycling with immense suc♛cess. To date he has achieved six Olympic medals for Italy – four of them gold – at London 2012 and Rio 2016, while he has 12 World Championship gold medals to his name in time trial and 🧔road relay events.