Peak NASCAR: Kyle Weatherman’s #47 Car Stolen From A Cracker Barrel Parking Lot

The Mike Harmon Racing team, which drives the #47 ‘National Anthem’ car, was on its way back to North Carolina from Daytona Beach when the team decided to stop for something eat.

“What could possible be better than a Cracker Barrel,” the team likely thought to themselves while stopping in Kingsland, Georgia. 

After parking their trucks and trailer, which contained the team’s official NASCAR race car, the team went inside to eat. It was then that surveillance footage showed a person getting into the team’s Ford F-350, “fiddling with the ignition” and eventually stealing the truck and trailer, pulling out onto I-95 south back toward Florida. 

#NEW Security video from the Kingsland Police showing @MhrRacing race car and trailer stolen from a parking lot around 5:55am Sunday. First video grainy, second video clearly shows truck. $5,000 reward offered. @FOX46News #NASCAR @KyleWeatherman

STORY: https://t.co/yVxv4ZXfjv pic.twitter.com/YroM3vw5Gz

— Brett Baldeck (@BrettFOX46) August 18, 2020

The team’s trailer not only had its #47 Camaro in the trailer, but also the team’s equipment. A second truck and trailer that the team had was left behind in the parking lot. The team is unsure of whether or not the thief knew exactly what he or she was stealing at the time. 

According to Fox News, the “car was displaying a distinctive ‘We Stand for the National Anthem’ livery at the time of the theft. A police report put the value of the items stolen at $400,000.”

Truck, trailer and various items are set up with with various tracking devices. If you have seen or know the whereabouts of the stolen items, please contact the local authorities. pic.twitter.com/pNi7fLX09v

— MHR Racing (@MhrRacing) August 16, 2020

The team, meanwhile, is carrying on. It says it is going to still have two cars this weekend at its NASCAR event in Dover. 

“We have other cars, but they aren’t 100 percent. Most teams are that way. You put your best stuff on the car you are running,” Harmon concluded. The team is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of the car.