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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\n\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the second time in two years, Oriol Servia has been told his race team is closing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   Dennis Reinbold told Panther DRR employees and Servia this week he and co-owner Robbie Buhl will have to close the IndyCar Series team after next month's Indianapolis 500 if sponsorship isn't found.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   The decision was first reported Thursday night by Speed.com and confirmed to The Associated Press by Servia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   \"I didn't see it coming,\" Servia said. \"I knew we were short on sponsorship money, but we haven't missed a single test. We haven't skipped anything.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   Servia joined the team prior to the 2012 season after Newman-Haas Racing closed its doors during the offseason because of a lack of sponsorship. The Spaniard had just finished a career-best fourth in the IndyCar standings with three podium finishes, and wasn't told the team was closing until after he'd landed in Spain following a December visit with management.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   The Newman-Haas closing was stunning, but Servia had several months to put together a new deal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   Now the news of DRR's predicament has him in a much more precarious situation. There are no open rides in IndyCar - particularly midseason - and with a commitment to DRR, Servia hadn't even been looking at other opportunities.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   It's particularly troubling because of the turnaround DRR has made in the past year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   Saddled with a Lotus engine at the start of last year, the team struggled until it aligned with Panther Racing in May and switched to Chevrolet. Servia, with his new engine, drove to a fourth-place finish in the Indianapolis 500. He went on to score three more top-fives, and one seventh-place finish, before the season ended.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   It gave the team high hopes for this year, particularly after Servia's sixth-place finish on Sunday at Long Beach.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   \"I was so happy with the car at Long Beach, so happy. We were making such progress,\" Servia said. \"I didn't see any shortages. I figured maybe we'd skip some testing in the second half of the season. But never this.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   \"Unless a miracle happens, I don't see how we'll continue the same.\"&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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