Hobart teenager Alex Peroni must wear a back brace for 30 days after 250km/h crash in Italy

Tennage motor racer Alex Peroni has been discharged from an Italian hospital after huge crash at Formula One track Monza.

Alex Peroni has been released from San Gerardo hospital in Italy and is on his way back to Tasmania to recover after his high-speed crash.

TASMANIAN teenager Alex Peroni is headed home to Hobart in a brace after doctors decided his fractured vertebra does not require surgery.

Peroni, 19, fractured a vertebra in his back and received a concussion in his frightening 250km/h airborne crash in a Formula 3 race at the Italian Grand Prix on Saturday.

ALEX PERONI INJURED IN SPECTACULAR CRASH

Peroni will consult Australian medical specialists when he arrives home to continue his recovery, before he can resume physical training and ultimately racing.

In the meantime, he must wear a back brace for at least the next 30 days and have total rest.

Australian Formula 3 driver Alex Peroni survived this spectacular crash. Picture: FOX SPORTS

That means Peroni will not race in the final round of the FIA Formula 3 Championship in Sochi, Russia, at the end of the month.

He is also unlikely to be race-fit in time for his planned debut in the Macau Grand Prix in November.

Peroni’s manager David Quinn said the aspiring Formula One driver’s injuries were more serious than they appeared on television when he was escorted by track marshals away from his wrecked Dallara open-wheeler.

“While Alex is in good spirits and keen to resume racing as soon as possible, the first priority is his full recovery which will necessarily take time. Therefore everyone, including Alex, needs to be patient,” Quinn said.

Grinning through the pain: Hobart motor racer Alex Peroni in San Gerardo hospital in Italy.

While he is at home, Peroni and Quinn will work to secure the funding necessary to continue racing overseas.

“For the past four seasons it’s been a constant struggle just to contest one international junior series each year, let alone pay for additional out-of-series track testing, simulator sessions and non-championship racing that some other drivers are able to fund,” Quinn said.

“All of these activities make a significant contribution to success at this level.

“Many of Alex’s competitors have substantial family and/or corporate backing to provide these additional opportunities. To them, unexpected costs, such as accident damage, are no object.

“We’ve been operating on comparatively shoe-string budgets each year, so the Monza accident presents a further challenge for us. But everyone in Alex’s fundraising team is committed to doing what we can to support his recovery and journey towards Formula One”.

Alex Peroni racing at Silverstone as part of the British Grand Prix in July. Picture: Diederik van der Laan / Dutch Photo Agency

Quinn said that while support for Peroni in his home state of Tasmania has been amazing, the time has come for other Australians and indeed other motorsport fans from around the world to come aboard to help bridge the funding gap.

“Alex has demonstrated his potential as a future Formula One champion by being the youngest Australian to win a European national openwheeler series [the 2016 French Formula Renault Monoplace Challenge, at age 16], followed by Formula Renault Eurocup Series race wins in the last two years at Monaco and Pau, France.

“We all expected Alex’s rookie year in the FIA Formula 3 Championship to be challenging given the highly competitive field of 30 drivers, many of whom have several years experience at this level and hundreds of hours more track time.

“However Alex’s outstanding skill and determination have impressed senior motorsport observers, such as Formula 1 journalist Peter Windsor.

“Alex can be proud of his achievements to date. Despite this setback he has the potential to follow in the wheel tracks of Daniel Ricciardo as Australia’s next Formula 1 star.”