This shouldn’t be too hard to find: a NASCAR Sprint Cup racecar with a Chevrolet SS body in blue and orange with sizeable No44 markings was stolen from a motel parking lot.

The racing car that’s valued at around $250,000 belonged to NASCAR driver Travis Kvapil and small-budget Team XTREME. The No. 44 Chevrolet SS that was stored in an enclosed trailer and the Ford pickup truck that hauled them were nabbed from a Drury Inn parking lot in Murrow early in the morning.

To make matters worse, being a smaller player in the game, Team XTREME did not have a backup car and was forced to withdraw from this weekend’s race in Atlanta.

“I’ve never heard of anything like this. It’s really bizarre,” Kvapil told the Salt Lake Tribune. “You can handle maybe getting a flat tire, or getting caught up in a wreck, or a blown engine, something that actually happens on the race track. Or you don’t qualify, because you don’t have enough speed. But to not even get a chance … that’s pretty disheartening.”

Video footage from a surveillance camera that was obtained by TMZ showed a man getting out of a silver Jeep at around 5:30 a.m. before stealing the trailer with the Chevrolet racer.

“There’s a lot of money inside that little trailer right now,” Kvapil told USA Today. “For the team’s sake and John Cohen’s sake, hopefully it can be recovered. Otherwise it would be a really, really huge setback for the team.”

H/T to Maria!

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