McKenna Haase has been released from Knoxville Hospital after being on the mend with pneumothorax and chest pain from a vicious crash on Friday’s Knoxville Nationals Hard Knox night at Knoxville Raceway.

The Des Moines, Iowa, driver was hospitalized directly after the accident late Friday night, but in the wee hours of Sunday — not too long after Saturday’s Nationals checkers — Haase posted the update to Facebook many have eagerly waited for.

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“Hey, everyone, thank you for all the prayers and to everyone that reached out. We just got the news that the hole in my lungs is stable enough for me to get discharged, so we we get to go home tonight,” Haase said in a 35-second video on her Facebook page. “And just thank you to everybody who’s commented, sent flowers or cards, or came to the merch trailer today, and everybody for their generosity. It means more than you ever know.”

Haase was competing in Friday’s first heat race of the evening when she was involved in an accident with Terry McCarl. Contact between the two drives triggered Haase into hitting the turn one wall and flipping end-over-end multiple times.

The 27-year-old says “I’m just very grateful to be alive and grateful to have a loyal, loving Sprint Car community surrounding us.”

“It’s just really meant a lot to us,” Haase added. “We’re just super thankful and hope to see you all back at the track soon.”

Haase’s iPhone that’d been reportedly missing has also been found and returned in her possession.

“We are headed home. Words can’t describe how amazed and grateful we are by how supportive and loving the racing community has been this week,” Haase’s Sunday morning post said in the caption accompanying her 35-second video. “Sometimes the depth of care in our sport gets masked by the ferocity of competition, and the goodness of God was written all over our week in spite of such a huge crash.

“We still have recovering to do but am thrilled to be home. Thank you all again for the prayers. And thank you to everyone who helped find my phone.”