“I feel really abused by this,” Don Panoz said about the lawsuit against former partner Nissan over the DeltaWing, a race car that surprised the racing community with its unique design and has since become embroiled in a messy public and courtroom fight over that design that’s been more dramatic than the racing. This story originally ran on June 12, 2015 and is being featured again for the Jalopnik Christmas Evergreen Bonanza. Three years ago, the radically different, rocket-shaped DeltaWing seemed like it could usher in a new era of innovation in racing. Le Mans, Indy and street-legal production cars were all mentioned as possibilities for its sleek, super aerodynamic design. Even though Nissan has moved on to other projects, the battle over the DeltaWing’s who owns the ideas behind it rages on. In short, Panoz claims that Nissan never finalized their sponsorship of the team, ripped off their design and even poached star designer Ben Bowlby to use the DeltaWing’s design work in their own projects. The battle is currently being fought in Georgia and Indiana civil courtrooms. To paint a picture of how things turned so bitter, Jalopnik scoured hundreds of pages of court documents and spoke to…