A federal district judge on Friday denied NASCAR’s motion to dismiss the antitrust lawsuit filed by 23XI Racing, which is owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin, and Front Row Motorsports. The ruling sends the case to pretrial, where both sides will be forced to share emails, text messages and other evidence, as well as provide sworn testimony on controversial and sensitive topics.Stressing that the bar is very high for a defendant to get the case dismissed, U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell ruled that the two sides have offered such radically different representations of the legal issues that he…
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A federal judge on Friday denied a request by NASCAR and NASCAR Chairman Jim France to dismiss the lawsuit filed against them by 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports.Both teams have not signed charter agreements with NASCAR and filed an antitrust complaint on October 2 against NASCAR and France.The order issued Friday by U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell came after hearing arguments from both sides in court Wednesday.Bell wrote in his order: “The parties to this action express their existential dispute in very different terms. According to the plaintiffs, NASCAR (run by the dynastic France family) is the iron-fisted…
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Amazon’s Prime Video has decided to sponsor a NASCAR team to help raise awareness of its first-ever racing series that it will stream on its platform, partnering with Hendrick Motorsports and its driver Chase Elliott.The agreement was announced on Wednesday without any financial conditions. But the parties say Prime Video will be the primary sponsor of the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet driven by Elliott for three races per year from 2025 to 2027, while serving as a season-long associate sponsor in other events.At a top team like Hendrick Motorsports, a transaction involving such assets would typically be valued at…
Bubba Wallace forced to issue NASCAR ultimatum to Michael Jordan and 23XI Racing The US mirror
Corey Day, a dirt racing star from Clovis, Calif., will compete in nearly 30 pavement races this season with Hendrick Motorsports and its affiliated teams in the NASCAR Xfinity, Craftsman Truck, ARCA and Trans AM Series, announced the team Thursday.“When Kyle Larson and Jeff Gordon say someone is the real deal, it certainly gets your attention,” Rick Hendrick, owner of Hendrick Motorsports, said in a team release. “Corey comes from a great racing family and in a short time has demonstrated a level of talent that sets him apart.“What he has already achieved at this stage of his career speaks…
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR went before a federal judge Wednesday and asked to dismiss the antitrust lawsuit filed against the stock car series. If it were to move forward, NASCAR requested that both suing teams be ordered to post bond to cover costs they would not be legally owed if they lost the case.NASCAR also asked U.S. Judge Kenneth Bell of the Western District of North Carolina to dismiss President Jim France as a defendant in the lawsuit filed by 23XI Racing, a team co-owned by NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan, and Front Row Motorsports, which is owned…
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