FILE PHOTO: Williams F1 Formula One Car Launch - New Williams driver Alex Zanardi sits in the Williams car - 7/1/99 - Action Images/Brandon Malone/File Photo/File Photo
ROME (Reuters) - Former Formula One driver and twice Champ Car champion Alex Zanardi remained in serious condition in intensive care on Saturday after suffering severe head injuries in a road accident while racing his handbike in Italy.
The 53-year-old Italian, who lost both legs and nearly his life in a 2001 Champ Car crash in Germany, was in a drug-induced coma, said Giuseppe Oliveri, neurosurgeon at the Santa Maria alle Scotte hospital in Siena where Zanardi was taken after the accident on Friday.
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