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Racer Brian Livengood is being released from Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta today.

Livengood has been hospitalized with internal and back injuries since his crash May 16 during AMA Superbike qualifying at Road Atlanta.

Livengood crashed when his GSX-R1000’s rear tire exploded entering the back-straight kink, and he slid into a concrete wall with a single, one-high row of haybales in front of it.

Livengood underwent surgery to fuse four vertebrae in his back.

According to Millennium Technologies Kaufman Suzuki’s Kevin Hunt, Livengood is in surprisingly good physical condition considering how long he was in the hospital, and plans to be at the Laguna Seca event July 10-13 to spectate or maybe help his team in the pits.

“I wish Airfence would’ve been there (where Livengood crashed at Road Atlanta),” said Hunt. “That would’ve been the saving grace. I’ve gotta thank everyone involved with the Roadracing World Action Fund for making things safer for everyone.”

Hunt and his team hauled three sections of Roadracing World Action Fund Airfence from Road America to Formula USA’s Aurora, Illinois offices after the AMA event at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. The three sections of Airfence, recently purchased by the Fund, were offered to AMA Pro Racing for use at AMA Nationals. After AMA Pro Racing officials said they did not have room in their trucks to haul the additional sections of Airfence, the sections were transferred to F-USA.