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Stolen No. 44 NASCAR race car found in suburban Atlanta

(AP) — Police have found the NASCAR race car stolen from a hotel parking lot near Atlanta Motor Speedway. The team tweeted a pictured of team owner John Cohen standing in front of the No. 44 Chevrolet, which was ditched in a wooded area near Loganville, Georgia. The race car, along with the pickup truck and trailer that were hauling it, were snatched just a few hours before Travis Kvapil was to run in qualifying. Team spokeswoman Amanda Ebersole said police did not recover the other contents of the trailer, which included a spare engine valued at $100,000 and racing equipment valued at $17,500. Despite a wreck in qualifying, the team managed to make the field for the Daytona 500 with Reed Sorenson behind the wheel. Sorenson switched to a different team for the Atlanta race, prompting Team XTREME to hire Kvapil, a one-time Sprint Cup regular who had only five starts in the top NASCAR series last season and was looking to make his first appearance of 2015.

 

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