NASCAR has tapped Latham & Watkins and Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick to defend against the Winston & Strawn antitrust lawsuit accusing the premier stock car racing organization of unlawful monopolization.

The early defense strategy from Latham and Shumaker slams the litigation as being riddled with "contradictions" in a case where the plaintiffs want to "profit from the very system they simultaneously call anticompetitive," according to NASCAR's counsel.