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"He is steadily improving," the hospital spokesman David Walsh said. "He still has some rehabilitation to go, but the hospital staff are extremely happy with his progress."Hakkinen left Adelaide airport with his girlfriend Erja Honkanen and his manager on a jet with special medical equipment.Earlier, Hakkinen revealed that he had set his sights on returning for the opening round of the 1996 Formula One season next March. In his first interview since the accident, Hakkinen said he was still committed to racing, but feared aggravating his serious concussion. "The crash hasn't changed my mind about racing," he said, "but at the moment I'm scared: I'm scared of what might happen if I slip and bang my head again," said the McLaren driver."The next one to one and a half months is the critical time and the doctors tell me I shouldn't hit my head again It is still sore and if I do too much sport my head aches I'm very lucky to be in the situation I'm in at the moment. At least I can walk and do things normally and the doctors say I will make a full recovery."Hakkinen crashed into a wall at 150mph during qualifying on Adelaide's street circuit before the final race of the season.
He may make his return to racing in Melbourne, where the first grand prix of next season will be held. Assuming he is fit to drive, Hakkinen will assume equal status at McLaren with his new team-mate, David Coulthard.. STEPHEN HENDRY stood on the verge of his sixth appearance in the final of the Royal Liver Assurance UK Championship, and a showdown today with Peter Ebdon, after taking a 7-1 lead over John Higgins at Preston yesterday. Higgins had predicted it would be a cracking game, but could do little to prevent Hendry's seemingly inexorable progress towards repeating last month's victory at the Skoda Grand Prix final in Sunderland. Hendry, who last weekend compiled a maximum 147 break against Gary Wilkinson, soon found his range. A break of 80 in the opening frame was a taste of things to come and it was not long before he was notching a break of 104 to claim a 2-0 advantage.Higgins snatched frame three after Hendry missed a difficult final pink but from that moment it was one-way traffic as the 26-year-old, five-times world champion piled up the points. He made 70 to win frame four after Higgins unluckily went in off, and then drilled in a long green to clear up with 25 to move 4-1 clear.Runs of 55, 45 and 73 increased his advantage to 6-1 and there was a final flourish when he cleared with 130 to finish the session 7-1 up. Higgins, the world No 11, managed only 14 points in the final three frames as Hendry increased his century tally at the tournament to nine.Ebdon defeated the Devonian Andy Hicks 9-1 on Friday to claim his first UK final appearance , after suffering a last-gasp defeat by Hendry in the semi- final 12 months ago.