Marussia Formula One driver Jules Bianchi
Marussia Formula One driver Jules Bianchi of France speaks to the media after a news conference at the Suzuka circuit October 2, 2014. French driver Bianchi was taken to hospital after being seriously injured in a crash that brought a halt to a wet Japanese Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday. Picture taken October 2, 2014. Reuters

Marussia driver Jules Bianchi continues to fight the most important lap of his life. The 25-year-old French motor racing driver is undergoing extensive rehabilitation therapy despite remaining unconscious from the severe head injury he suffered during the fateful race at the Japanese Grand Prix at the Suzuka Circuit Oct. 5.

Bianchi's family provided the update Tuesday by relaying that the promising driver continues with his medical treatment and remains unconscious. His state is an improvement from weeks prior when he was aided by machines to breathe after he was placed on a drug-induce com.

"Jules' neurological status remains unchanged; he is unconscious but able to breathe unaided. Whilst there is no significant information to report, we take a great deal of comfort from the fact that Jules continues to fight, as we knew he would, and this has enabled the medical professionals caring for him to commence the planned, but very painstaking, programme of rehabilitation therapy," the family of Bianchi told BBC Sports in press conference released Tuesday.

The Frenchman was the central figure in an in-race crash when he collided head on with a tractor crane that was trying to retrieve the vehicle of fellow racer Adrian Sutil when he himself crashed the lap before after falling out control. Bianchi suffered a diffuse axonal injury that left him in the unconscious state and was tended to by specialists in Japan. Better news came out last month when his family was able to bring him back to his hometown in Nice and he began breathing on his own.

The FIA investigation which looked into the crash placed much of the blame on Bianchi's driving saying that the Frenchman failed to sufficiently slow down to double yellow flags that was a precaution for the crane in the racetrack. The same report alluded that the Formula One driver crashed into the crane at 78 miles per hour and determined that even a closed cockpit would not have ensured that Bianchi would remain unharmed. The team that undertook the inquiry included FIA Safety Commission president Peter Wright, Ross Brawn, Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali, Emerson Fittpaldi and Alex Wurz.