UPDATE: Unzicker revealed that the tires were taken by kids working for the track who took them to a stack that already been picked over. He was only able to recover one of the tires.

He wrote on Facebook, “Mystery solved. The track had kids going around picked up tires early this morning. The problem with that is the kids must not know much about tires or what you can or can’t take. You can NOT take tires stacked up in-between a toter & trailer or tires that are still good ones!”

“By the time we figured out where they took the tires they had all ready been picked over,” he continued. “We did find one in the pile that was ours. On a good note no one stole them on a bad note it was a expensive lesson & we don’t have tires we planed on using.”

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Ryan Unzicker shared that he had 13 tires stolen from him last night at I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park.

Unzicker posted to Facebook, “We bought 14 used tires yesterday they were stack up between our toter and trailer someone came and took 13 of them somewhere between 2am and 9am.”

“If anyone knows who did this please reach out we would like to have them back,” he added. “We all struggle in this sport dont take whats not yours!”

Unzicker is competing at I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park with both the World of Outlaws as well as the DIRTCar Summer Nationals Hell Tour. Unzicker had a solid showing last night. He was the top qualifier in Group B and started Heat 4 from the pole and was able to hold on to third to advance into the feature. He started 14th in the feature and was able to finish the night with a respectable 11th behind a number of World of Outlaws regulars.

Unzicker noted that he “missed the set up in the heat” but that he would “be back after it again tonight!”

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