NASCAR plans to issue charter to ‘interested team’ amid 23XI-Front Row lawsuit
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR plans to issue a charter to “an interested team”, according to a filing in their lawsuit with 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports.
NASCAR filed the document with the court Monday. They plan to issue the charter once the court rules on an injunction 23XI and FRM are seeking.
The teams are seeking an injunction to let their cars compete as chartered entries in the NASCAR Cup Series. Competing chartered would let them be locked into every race and earn more money than open teams.
Before the season began, a judge granted that request based on evidence at the time. In June, another judge overturned the decision. Almost immediately afterward, the teams filed for a new injunction. NASCAR promised to not doing anything with their charters until the ruling on the new injunction. However, the teams began racing as open entries in July at Dover Motor Speedway with a new rule that would — as it’s written — help the teams lock into each race.
In its filing Monday, NASCAR considered the four 23XI Racing- and Front Row Motorsports-owned charters to be “non-issued”. They also considered the two charters Stewart-Haas Racing sold — one each — to 23XI and FRM to be “inactive”.
A hearing on the new injunction request is scheduled for Thursday. A ruling could come any time after then but is likely to come the following week, leading up to the Sept. 5-7 race weekend at World Wide Technology Raceway.
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
Fjeld has covered a wide array of stories and moments over the years, including Kevin Harvick's final Cup Series season, the first NASCAR national series disqualification in over 50 years, Shane van Gisbergen's stunning win in Chicago and the first Cup Series race at Road America in 66 years – as well as up-and-coming drivers' stories and stories from inside the sport, like the tech it takes for Hendrick Motorsports to remain a top-tier team.
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