{"id":17376,"date":"2025-07-23T06:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/17376\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T06:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:52:12","slug":"michael-jordans-nascar-future-addressed-as-23xi-difficulties-laid-out-motorsport-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/17376\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan’s NASCAR future addressed as 23XI difficulties laid out – Motorsport – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knee deep in its fifth NASCAR Cup Series<\/a> season since being co-founded by Michael Jordan<\/a> and Denny Hamlin<\/a>, 23XI Racing\u2019s honeymoon period is well and truly over. Without a win since October 2024 at Homestead-Miami and embroiled in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit together with Front Row Motorsports against NASCAR, which has recently seen the team lose all three of its charters<\/a>, the remainder of 2025 could prove pivotal in the future of 23XI.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit alleges monopolistic and unfair behaviour by NASCAR and is set to go to trial in December. Despite 23XI\u2019s best efforts, its charters were officially vacated as of the Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400 on Sunday<\/a> at Dover, won by Hamlin in the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 11 Toyota.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This came after a U.S. District Court Judge denied their request for a temporary restraining order, which would have allowed both 23XI and FRM to continue racing as chartered teams through this season. But while their hopes may have been dented when it comes to the short term, there is still hope that a fresh injunction could rule in their favor following the next race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, as per Fox Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With wins having dried up and off-track controversy having decimated any hopes of this being an immediate and seamless success for Jordan, 2014 Cup Series champion Kevin Harvick was recently asked whether or not he believed the NBA icon would be sticking around for the long haul.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time we hear [Jordan] talk, yes,\u201d he said on the Harvick’s Happy Hour<\/a> podcast. \u201cI think that he\u2019s been in some moments like this, with the NBAPA and the league, in the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBut man, it sure seems like it\u2019s not going the way that they thought it was going to go, as far as – NASCAR is not the NBA. They\u2019re fighting a different fight. I don\u2019t know how it\u2019s going to work out for him this time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s affecting their teams. The performance of their teams. Where they are right now, being unchartered, losing their charters – how do you sell sponsorship? How do you keep your drivers? How do you keep your employees? I don’t think this has gone the way they thought it was going to go, and now it\u2019s all becoming more challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harvick noted that following his win at the \u201cMonster Mile,\u201d Hamlin was insistent that \u201call will be exposed\u201d<\/a> as it pertained to the lawsuit in December, although the 49-year-old was unsure exactly what this meant. Regardless, Harvick painted a bleak picture for 23XI in the short term, asking, \u201cFrom a team-standpoint, driver-standpoint, sponsor-standpoint, why do you even want to be in the middle of that until it\u2019s over?\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cEverybody wants to be in the middle of something that Michael Jordan is doing. You want to have cars that are winning, to put your name on the side, which is where they were last year, not this year. Denny\u2019s obviously in the middle of it, winning in a Joe Gibbs car. He\u2019s balancing all of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think the team dynamic has become very difficult. So, I don\u2019t know how frustrated Michael gets, but everything that we\u2019ve heard him say is he\u2019s in it for the long haul, and we\u2019ll find out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knee deep in its fifth NASCAR Cup Series season since being co-founded by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[2074,49,48,3004,2332,634,15085,82],"class_list":["post-17376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-23xi-racing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-michael-jordan","tag-motorsport-section","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-antitrust-lawsuit","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}