Above: Oriol Servia in Panther's National Guard car in 2013. The ongoing legal dispute between the former Panther Racing IndyCar team, the IndyCar Series, and Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing over sponsorship from the National Guard came to a quiet end last week. The long-in-the-tooth lawsuit from Panther Racing offshoot Panther Brands claimed IndyCar and RLL conspired with sponsorship management firm Docupak to win the lucrative National Guard contract for the 2014 IndyCar Series season. "Believing that RLL Racing had conspired with IndyCar and a bid management agency called Docupak to persuade the Guard to sponsor RLL Racing instead of Panther, Panther brought suit in state court...
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