TUCSON, Arizona — Drag racer Kyle Hough spent what should have been his daughter’s kindergarten graduation day recovering in a hospital room at Banner Medical Center, but the third-generation driver says he’s simply grateful to be alive.
Hough, the 2012 IHRA Nitro Jam Fuel Altered champion, was competing in the Fuel Altered Chaos event at Tucson Dragway on Friday when a high-speed crash left him with serious leg injuries.
“I remember the whole day leading up to it,” Hough said from his hospital bed…