JR certainly needs to land somewhere. But the latest reports already have NHL fielding three cars: Graham, Pink Lloyd, and Mutoh with his Formula Dream cash influx (to make room for RHR at Andretti).

BUT — and this is COMPLETE speculation on my part, so don’t shoot me when it doesn’t happen — I couldn’t help but notice that the sponsorship issue was dealt with rather dodgily in the press release about Dan returning to Panther (http://www.pantherracing.com/news/index.cfm?cid=24173 — see the last line). Nothing against Dan, but it would be very smart to shift that National Guard sponsorship to JR (aka Captain America) and put him in a car with it next year. Again, pure speculation. We’ll see what happens.