{"id":313742,"date":"2025-11-29T05:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/313742\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T05:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:20:08","slug":"denny-hamlin-calls-out-espn-on-nascar-lawsuit-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/313742\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin calls out ESPN on NASCAR lawsuit coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur fans have been brainwashed\u201d<\/p>\n<p>23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports are currently suing NASCAR. The antitrust trial is set to begin on December 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN wrote a story leading into Monday\u2019s trial. Denny Hamlin, 23XI Racing co-owner was not happy with some of the wording. <\/p>\n<p>You can see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/racing\/nascar\/story\/_\/id\/47096983\/23xi-front-row-vs-nascar-trial-why-michael-jordan-denny-hamlin-want-tear-stock-car-racing?referrer=scribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN story<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the trial result, it will likely result in an appeal from the losing side. This lawsuit could drag on for years to come if a settlement is not reached. Both sides recently had settlement talks but they appear to have gone nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>Denny Hamlin comments<\/p>\n<p>Denny Hamlin reacted via X, \u201cPlease give credit to Mike Forde for helping you write this propaganda piece that they want pushed to switch the narrative. Continuous lies about our stance, NASCARs motives for its actions, and continued message from the sanctioning body that everything is fine. Our fans know better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ryan McGee of ESPN responded, \u201cTried to hit it down the middle, thus all the \u201c(Fill in the blank) believes\u2026\u201d and \u201c(Fill in the blank) argues\u2026\u201d Sorry you disagree, but thanks for reading. See you Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Denny Hamlin added, \u201cOur fans have been brainwashed with their talking points for decades. Narratives pushed by media who are intimidated by them. Lies are over starting Monday morning. It\u2019s time for the truth. It\u2019s time for change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews.co\/2025\/11\/24\/richard-childress-considering-legal-against-nascar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Childress is considering legal action against NASCAR<\/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.joegibbsracing.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Gibbs Racing<\/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":"\u201cOur fans have been brainwashed\u201d 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports are currently suing NASCAR. The antitrust trial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[2074,2331,45,49,48,2078,3208,13444,3140,59893,3932,2073,4384,114890,8127,3004,634,3628,8354,10031,82,9272],"class_list":["post-313742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-23xi-racing","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-hendrick-motorsports","tag-jim-france","tag-lawsuit","tag-michael-jordan","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-nascar-cup-series","tag-ncs","tag-sports","tag-tyler-reddick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313742","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=313742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}