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Travis Kvapil was arrested by local police and charged with assault on his wife.

According to the Mooresville (a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina) Police Department “Travis Wade Kvapil, 37, was arrested “on the charges of assault on a female and false imprisonment. 


On October 8, 2013, Mooresville Police responded to the Kvapil residence following a 911 phone call regarding an assault. 


Mooresville Police Department conducted an investigation and arrested Kvapil following a domestic dispute between the defendant and the defendant's wife. 


Kvapil was taken to Iredell County Jail and held under a domestic hold awaiting an appearance in District Court today.”

On Wednesday morning he was released on bail (bond).

The Wisconsin native was the NASCAR Truck Series champion in 2003 and currently drives for BK Racing and is 31rst in the Sprint Cup Series standings.

The team told local television station, WCNC, it has "no comment at this time" on Kvapil's arrest.

The Sprint Cup driver has been racing full-time in NASCAR's premier series since 2005 when he first drove for Penske Racing.

Travis Kvapil. (Photo: Toyota Racing)

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Some winter testing in Bahrain ahead of the 2014 season could take place at night, Italy's Autosprint reports.

It was already known that the Sakhir circuit will host back-to-back tests between mid February and March ahead of next year's all-new V6-powered championship.

Martin Whitmarsh, boss of the partly Bahrain-owned McLaren team, revealed recently that organisers of the race have installed floodlights at the track, so that the 10th anniversary of the grand prix can be held at night.

"The difference in air density between day and night would give the teams verification of the aerodynamic data (during winter testing)," correspondent Cesare Maria Mannucci said on Thursday.

It has also emerged that Mark Webber's first taste of his new life away from formula one will be in Bahrain.

Spain's Diario Sport newspaper said the Australian will test Porsche's new Le Mans prototype at Sakhir in January, after his Red Bull contract expires.

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Fiat has denied a report that its CEO Sergio Marchionne discouraged investors at a conference last week from participating in Chrysler Group's initial public offering.

Fiat denied a report by broker Sanford C. Bernstein that CEO Sergio Marchionne had made comments discouraging investors from taking part in Chrysler Group's initial public offering.

CEO Sergio Marchionne discouraged investors at a conference last week from participating in Chrysler Group's initial public offering -- a process that was forced by the automaker's second-largest shareholder last month.

CEO Sergio Marchionne discouraged investors at a conference last week from participating in Chrysler Group's initial public offering -- a process that was forced by the automaker's second-largest shareholder last month.

A Los Angeles judge said a juror's complaint that a fellow panelist in Toyota's trial over a fatality linked to unintended acceleration wasn't participating in deliberations was unsubstantiated.

A Los Angeles judge said she will investigate a juror's complaint that a fellow panelist in Toyota's trial over a fatality linked to unintended acceleration has come to court "high" and isn't participating in deliberations.

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The Los Angeles Auto Show next month will host 22 world debuts from 13 brands, organizers said today. The brands are BMW, Chevrolet, Ford, Honda, Hyundai, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, Porsche, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota.

General Motors is recalling nearly 22,000 units of the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and

Codemasters' F1 simulator is back for 2013 with all the drivers, cars and tracks from the current season.

General Motors is recalling nearly 22,000 units of the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra full-size pickups because the seats may move in a rear-end crash.

Not only are the German horsepower wars still going strong, but if this next bit of news isn't evidence of German sales wars, then we don't know what is.

Toyota is reducing the price of its 2014 plug-in Prius models in the United States to try to boost sales and meet a California mandate as automakers find that cost is critical to consumers' willingness to buy rechargeable autos.

It would be fair to say that the original Nissan Leaf was a smash hit at Roberts Towers. I can't believe our original review was as long ago as February 2012 but there you go. And, for weeks after The Man from Nissan loaded it on its transporter and took it back home, Misses 5 and 2 kept asking where the lovely quiet blue car had gone.

The average fuel economy of new trucks, cars, SUVs and vans sold in September fell 0.3 mpg from August, to 24.6 mpg, according to a monthly report from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.

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So far today, Mark Machado, better known as Mister Cartoon, has dropped off three of his kids at school and customized a Chevrolet Camaro.

So far today, Mark Machado, better known as Mister Cartoon, has dropped off three of his kids at school and customized a Chevrolet Camaro. Later, working until 9 p.m., he'll lay out the pattern for a lucky client who joins top celebs and ballplayers in receiving one of his Escher-like tattoos. "We stretch when other people go home," he says. Right now, though, he welcomes us to a commercial pillbox near the west end of L.A.'s Sixth Street Viaduct, the seat of his creative empire, to talk about his art, culture, and car-care products.

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National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) is remaining coy concerning any precise restart date for its Saab division, but insists it will still be "this autumn," as final supplier contracts are negotiated.

After focusing on reliability, relationships and "love," in its ads, Subaru of America is going back to the well with a creative theme broached a few years ago: a near-miss with death.