American Kenny Noyes, the 2014 FIM/CEV Repsol Superbike Champion, is still in a coma after crashing and suffering a head injury during the warm-up for the FIM/CEV Repsol European Superbike Championship event July 5 at Motorland Aragon, but he is beginning to respond to stimuli and showing signs of recovery, according to his father Dennis Noyes.

“Kenny is more responsive now to sound, voice, touch, smell, pain and has started opening his eyes for long periods (5-10 minutes),” Dennis Noyes wrote in an e-mail to Roadracingworld.com. “Doctors say these are all good signs and believe recovery is coming. It may be weeks, months, don´t know, but we are hopeful everyday.”

Kenny Noyes’ father, mother, brother and wife are now living in an apartment near the Hospital Clinico Universitario Lozano Blesa in Zaragoza, Spain, and visiting with him several hours each day.