--- title: "Thieves Steal Racing Team’s Big Rig Holding $1.5 Million in Porsche Race Cars" description: "The search for a trailer carrying four Porsche race cars belonging to team Rennsport-one in South Florida remains ongoing." date: "2024-08-30" modified: "2024-08-30" authors: - name: "José Rodríguez Jr" job_title: "Contributing Writer" link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/jose-rodriguez-jr" url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/thieves-steal-racing-teams-big-rig-holding-1-5m-in-porsche-race-cars" categories: - "Culture" - "News" - "Racing" --- # Thieves Steal Racing Team’s Big Rig Holding $1.5 Million in Porsche Race Cars ![]() *\NBC6\* Thieves strolled onto the [parking lot]() of a race garage in Florida and stole a tractor hauling a trailer that contained four [Porsche]() race cars, auto parts, and assorted gear. The contents of the trailer are worth about $1.5 million dollars, according to the owner of the [professional racing team]() targeted by the thieves, Rennsport-one. The theft was caught on camera, and the incident took place on Sunday, August 25 before daybreak in the parking lot of the Rennsport-one facility in Pompano Beach, Florida. Team owner Justin Bellinzoni tells [*NBC6*]() that two people just drove onto the lot and left shortly thereafter. Some 20 minutes later, a thief drove away in the team’s big rig, prompting a search that has failed to recover the race cars as the team shared on [Instagram](). > [View this post on Instagram]() > [A post shared by RS1 (@rennsport\_one)]() The Rennsport-one big rig had a GPS locator onboard, but Bellinzoni and a private investigator that he hired had no luck finding it through those means. The last known location of the tractor and trailer yielded no recovery, according to *NBC6*. Miami-Dade Police eventually managed to recover the truck but not the trailer, which held the valuable motorsport machines and their equipment. The Broward Sheriff’s Office dusted the truck for prints, but the search for the missing trailer is still ongoing. Bellinzoni says the trailer is “somewhere in South Florida, that’s all I know.” He also said, “I was gutted man, we work really hard for what we do and we need these cars to compete and we have commitments to our customers and obligations to fulfill, and to see cars disappear it was gut-wrenching.” ![]() The team owner is committed to finding the trailer and recovering the four Rennsport-one Porsche cars inside, but he struck a more forgiving tone when speaking with reporters, telling *NBC6* that “Justice would be great, but I believe in forgiveness and people make mistakes. We just really want back our stuff so we can finish the obligations and commitments we have with our customers." *Got tips? Send ’em to tips@thedrive.com* ## Author José is a contributing writer at *The Drive*. He was raised in the bed of a single-cab Mazda B2000 and, later, in the jump seat of an extended-cab Ford F-150, which should have come with a LOBO badge. José’s parents were migrant workers who drove all across the American South, so he spent his formative years on the road and now finds the comfort of home on the highway. Cars are cathedrals for him where individuals can commune with the self. That’s why he loves small cars like his 1997 BMW 318ti—the smaller, the better. José is also an avid motorcyclist who enjoys spotting bike cameos in the works of Akira Toriyama and Studio Ghibli.