NASCAR Charter Agreement reveals driver obligations throughout season
Ever wonder what obligations your favorite NASCAR driver has to fulfill away from the track? 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports’ lawsuit with NASCAR is revealing that.
The recently unsealed NASCAR Cup Series Member Charter Agreement from the teams’ lawsuit against NASCAR offers a peek behind-the-curtain as to what drivers with chartered teams are required to with their media and promotional obligations with the sanctioning body.
The charter agreement highlights a driver agreement section, detailing the obligations drivers on the 36 chartered drivers have to fulfill throughout the season.
The agreement outlines what the sanctioning body calls “season-long baseline criteria” which includes:
- Season Launch Production Day (up to 8 hours)
- Season Launch Promotional Assignment (up to 1 hour)
- Busch Light Clash Race Weekend Appearance (up to 30 minutes)
- Daytona 500 Media Day (up to 8 hours)
- Daytona 500 Polesitter Media Tour (up to 24 hours)
- Daytona 500 Race Weekend Appearance (up to 30 minutes)
- Daytona 500 Champion’s Media Tour (up to 48 hours)
- Playoffs Media Day (up to 12 hours)
- Playoffs Weekly Promotional Requests (up to 1 hour)
- Championship 4 Media Tour (up to 24 hours)
- Championship 4 Media Day (up to 8 hours)
- Champion’s Media Tour (up to 48 hours)
- (4) Weekly Remote Media Assignments (up to 1.5 hours each)
- (4) Social Promotion Assignments (up to 4 posts)
- (4) NASCAR Digital Media Assignments (up to 1 hour each)
- (4) Race Weekend Appearance Assignments (up to 30 minutes each)
Further outlined in the agreement shows that drivers in the “top 30 must participate in some form of media availability” during race weekends. Flexibility is offered through a virtual setting like Zoom, in-person at the track (press conference or media center bullpen scrum).
Additionally, drivers who win, get a top-five finish and “any driver finishing outside the top five, shall comply with any reasonable request” for post-race interviews.
Since the dismissal of NASCAR’s counterclaim in the 23XI/FRM lawsuit earlier this week, documents surrounding the case have been made public.
The 108-page 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Member Charter Agreement, was made available by Motorsport.
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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