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According to his father, Leland Howard, racer Ty Howard was released from Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colorado and flew home to Texas today. Howard underwent surgery on a broken hip and received skin grafts on an abraded arm, the result of a crash during Saturday’s Formula Xtreme race at Pikes Peak International Raceway.

Leland Howard said that racer Rich Conicelli is still in the hospital as the result of a crash during practice at Pikes Peak; Howard said that Conicelli suffered a broken collarbone, three broken ribs and a punctured lung, which filled with fluid and then leaked fluid into his chest cavity.

Conicelli is likely to be in the hospital until the end of the week, Leland Howard said.