{"id":245070,"date":"2025-10-28T06:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/245070\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T06:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:42:08","slug":"brian-frances-departure-is-not-allowed-to-be-mentioned-in-the-nascar-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/245070\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian France&#8217;s departure is not allowed to be mentioned in the NASCAR trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both sides have agreed to these new trial stipulations<\/p>\n<p>On December 1, the trial between NASCAR and two race teams is set to begin. 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports opened the antitrust lawsuit late last year.<\/p>\n<p>There were recent meetings regarding a possible settlement. However, they were unable to agree to terms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews.co\/2024\/10\/02\/nascar-lawsuit-opened-by-23xi-racing-and-front-row-motorsports\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR lawsuit opened by 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two sides have had a lengthy back-and-forth regarding several niche details ahead of the trial. Now, both sides have agreed to a set of rules for the trial.<\/p>\n<p>No personal attacks will be allowed in the trial. Both sides have also agreed not to reference prior cases of attorneys on both sides (Jeffrey Kessler and Christopher Yates).<\/p>\n<p>And, more interestingly, there will be no mention allowed of NASCAR executive Brian France. That includes discussion of his departure from the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Brian France was the former NASCAR Chairman from 2003 to 2018. He abruptly left the company following a DUI charge in Sag Harbor, New York. He pleaded guilty to a one count misdemeanor in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Brian France was replaced by Jim France.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews.co\/2022\/11\/18\/brian-france-discusses-the-arrest-that-changed-his-life\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian France discusses the arrest that changed his life<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trial Rules<\/p>\n<p>1. \u201cThe Parties will not make any ad hominem personal attacks or otherwise denigrate counsel at trial, including specifically through attacks on counsel\u2019s role in the litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201cThe Parties will not refer to or discuss prior cases where counsel for the Parties served in opposition to one another, including but not limited to, N. Am. Soccer League LLC v. United States Soccer Fed\u2019n, Inc., 1:17-cv-05495 (E.D.N.Y.), Relevent Sports, LLC v. United States Soccer Federation Inc., No. 1:19-cv-08359 (S.D.N.Y), and Shields et al v. F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Natation, Case No. 3:18-cv-07393-JSC (N.D. Cal.).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>3. \u201cThe Parties will not refer to the allegations in the second sentence of Paragraph 65 of Plaintiffs\u2019 Amended Complaint regarding former NASCAR executive Brian France or the alleged circumstances surrounding Brian France\u2019s departure from NASCAR.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These terms were filed on Monday October 27th, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews.co\/2025\/10\/24\/nascar-lawsuit-update-attorneys-from-both-sides-comment-after-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR lawsuit update: Attorneys from both sides comment after hearing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Links<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">NASCAR<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.23xiracing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">23XI Racing<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/front-row-motorsports.square.site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Front Row Motorsports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both sides have agreed to these new trial stipulations On December 1, the trial between NASCAR and two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[2074,114889,2331,45,49,48,2078,3208,13444,3140,59893,3932,2073,114890,8127,3004,634,3628,8354,10031,82,10364,9272],"class_list":["post-245070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-23xi-racing","tag-brian-france","tag-bubba-wallace","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charter","tag-court","tag-courts","tag-cup-series","tag-curtis-polk","tag-denny-hamlin","tag-front-row-motorsports","tag-jim-france","tag-lawsuit","tag-michael-jordan","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-ncs","tag-sports","tag-steve-phelps","tag-tyler-reddick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245070","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=245070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}