You go to Daytona with ONE car and enter the race, with one car, and go away from Daytona $250,000 richer. Yea Yippee,you are on top of the world. You and your skeleton crew are happy as all get out. You park at the motel to rest. Sometime during the night POOF its stolen. Can you believe this?
Team owner John Cohen told USA Today Sports that the team will enter the event next weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Cohen said he didn't have an estimate on the value of the race car.
The only lead, he said, was a surveillance video showing the team's unmarked dually trailer being stolen with the car inside. The team hauler with tools was already at AMS.
"All we know is it was a silver jeep," Cohen said. "One guy got out and they pulled off together."
Travis Kvapil was preparing to attempt to qualify for Sunday's race in the car Friday afternoon at 5:45. Now car 44 has withdrawn from the race. distance to participate.
According to the police report, surveillance footage captured part of the theft. At 5:25 a.m., a newer model silver or grey Jeep Cherokee was observed driving into the Drury Inn parking lot. It was seen returning at 5:32 a.m.; two minutes later, the trailer and the car inside were seen leaving the property.
Team Xtreme crew chief Peter Sospenzo called police at 5:52 a.m. to report the trailer missing.
According to the police report, the car is valued at $250,000. A backup engine also inside the trailer is valued at $100,000 and there was $17,500 worth of other equipment in the trailer.
"It would be a loss if we couldn't locate the vehicle," Oglesby said.
Now whats your take on this? As hard as it is to build a car without losing it (as I did when my trailer with so much stuff on it to finish our car got stolen from my shop) Life is so cruel sometimes !!
updated by @johnny-mallonee: 08/23/18 10:08:50PM
