{"id":324870,"date":"2025-12-04T13:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324870\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:22:07","slug":"front-row-motorsports-bob-jenkins-takes-the-stand-in-nascar-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324870\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Row Motorsports\u2019 Bob Jenkins takes the stand in NASCAR trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">Front Row Motorsports owner Bob Jenkins testified yesterday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/10\/02\/nascar-antitrust-lawsuit-23xi-racing-front-row-motorsports-charter-dispute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the federal antitrust case against NASCAR<\/a> that he was \u201chonestly very hurt\u201d by a \u201ctake-it-or-leave-it\u201d offer on a new charter agreement that came with a deadline of mere hours to sign the 112-page document. Jenkins \u201chas never turned a profit\u201d since launching his NASCAR team in the early 2000s and \u201cestimates he\u2019s lost\u201d $100M even while winning the Daytona 500 in 2021. He testified he is \u201cfighting for NASCAR to be healthy and stable\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nascar-lawsuit-antitrust-michael-jordan-0fc60298a632fb9aaf7ba722ddfd93f5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AP, 12\/3<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">The first thing NASCAR\u2019s lawyer did on cross examination was \u201chave Jenkins acknowledge that his other business, particularly Charter Foods, is his day job.\u201d They then went on to explain that Long John Silver\u2019s, one of the franchises Jenkins has owned, is \u201cnow owned by his sons.\u201d NASCAR then moved on to how Jenkins \u201cmade deals in which a driver or partner could donate to the Lakeway Christian Schools he founded instead of paying the race team.\u201d NASCAR also argued that Jenkins \u201cwas losing money before the charter agreement and is now blaming the series and suing over it.\u201d Jenkins \u201cwill continue under cross-examination\u201d this morning (<a href=\"https:\/\/racer.com\/2025\/12\/03\/front-row-motorsports-bob-jenkins-takes-the-stand-in-nascar-antitrust-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RACER, 12\/3<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Front Row Motorsports owner Bob Jenkins testified yesterday in the federal antitrust case against NASCAR that he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-324870","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\/324870","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=324870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}