{"id":324589,"date":"2025-12-04T10:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324589\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:01:12","slug":"staggering-figure-michael-jordans-team-paid-to-nascar-last-year-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324589\/","title":{"rendered":"Staggering figure Michael Jordan’s team paid to NASCAR last year revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports lawsuit against NASCAR <\/a>continues today as the two sides go back and forth in court. Part of the revelations today included the amount of money that 23XI has paid to NASCAR in the last year. <\/p>\n

23XI Racing filed this antitrust lawsuit claiming that NASCAR has been violating the law to maintain its monopoly on premier stock car racing. There are a lot of finances involved in this case. Today, it was revealed that 23XI paid almost $1 million in fees to NASCAR in the 2024 season. <\/p>\n

Adam Stern of Sports Business Journal<\/a> posted the exhibit on Twitter\/X. It shows fees for Pre-License Drug Testing, NASCAR Licenses, Entry Fees, NASCAR Penalties, Internet & Data Analytics, and SMT Analytics. In total, 23XI paid NASCAR $994,569.00. <\/p>\n

23XI Racing and Front Row filed the lawsuit over alleged antitrust violations. The story that the teams want to paint is one that shows NASCAR as a restrictive sanctioning body that represses the teams\u2019 ability to flourish competitively and financially through illegal means. <\/p>\n

Teams have access to everyone else\u2019s SMT Data in the Cup Series. You can see the lines everybody runs, throttle control, brakes, and steering. For the price of $168,357 for internet and data and an additional $42,466 for SMT Analytics specifically, is a hefty price tag. Many drivers and teams have floated the idea of taking that access away and limiting it. However, that\u2019s not why the teams brought up these numbers in this trial. <\/p>\n

Is this a lot of money? Yes, but that is all relative. The teams are showing a lot of big numbers money-wise, and it might be enough to shock the jury. Or, it might not. NASCAR will have plenty of opportunities to counter the teams\u2019 arguments. <\/p>\n

23XI Racing lawsuit: Scott Prime pressed on charters<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Kessler, attorney for 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports, questioned Scott Prime <\/a>about a number of topics. The teams are trying to build a story that NASCAR has restricted competition in the market of premier stock car racing. Kessler questioned Prime about alleged non-competes, avoiding the potential of an upstart series, and regarding the tracks that NASCAR owns and has agreements with.<\/p>\n

Prime is a witness for 23XI and FRM<\/a>. He is an \u201cadverse witness.\u201d He works for NASCAR, the defendant in this trial. So, his interests in this case are against those of the teams, but there is a strategy to calling someone up who may appear adversarial to your cause. Direct and cross-examination are two different ways of pulling information out of a witness. The teams clearly felt it best that they deliver the direct questions to Prime in this trial.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Kessler asked about the provision against team owners (of at least 10% stake) from racing in competing stock car racing series in the United States, or even owning a stake in a competing series. \u201cYou agree this is a non-compete, right?\u201d Kessler said,\u00a0via Joseph Srigley and Toby Christie of\u00a0Racing America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cA narrow one, yes,\u201d Prime replied. \u201cWhy is that called Goodwill? What\u2019s goodwill about keeping a team from running other series?\u201d the attorney asked in return<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports lawsuit against NASCAR continues today as the two sides go back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-324589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324589","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=324589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}