Travis Kvapil’s NASCAR car stolen from hotel before race

Travis Kvapil’s NASCAR Sprint Cup car was stolen Friday, forcing him to withdraw from a race this weekend near Atlanta. A trailer with the No. 44 car inside was hitched to a 2004 Ford F-350 pickup truck parked outside a hotel in Morrow, Georgia, about 15 miles south of Atlanta, police said. Surveillance video shows the truck and trailer being driven out of the parking lot around 5:30 a.m., Morrow police Detective Sgt. Larry Oglesby said. The trailer is plain white with no markings. “Hopefully they’ll open this one up and say, ‘Oh no, this isn’t what we thought,’ and will drop it off at the nearest vacant lot or apartment complex or somewhere,” Oglesby said. The 2015 Chevy NASCAR race car inside the trailer is valued at $250,000. Also inside the trailer was a spare engine valued at $100,000. – AP