{"id":330953,"date":"2025-12-07T20:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/330953\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T20:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:12:07","slug":"judge-calls-out-both-sides-of-nascar-antitrust-lawsuit-over-trials-slow-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/330953\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge calls out both sides of NASCAR antitrust lawsuit over trial\u2019s slow pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">Judge Kenneth Bell \u201cadmonished both sides\u201d in the NASCAR antitrust lawsuit over the \u201cslow pace of the trial, which was initially expected to take two weeks.\u201d 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports attorney Jeffrey Kessler said that he \u201cdidn\u2019t anticipate wrapping up the teams\u2019 side until the middle of next week.\u201d NASCAR had \u201cplanned to call\u201d Team Penske owner Roger Penske as a witness, and Penske, who is \u201creluctant to testify, has said he\u2019s only available next Monday.\u201d NASCAR lead attorney Christopher Yates \u201casked that Penske be allowed to testify that day,\u201d but Kessler \u201cobjected because it would disrupt the flow of his presentation.\u201d Bell sided with Kessler and said that \u201cstretching the trial to three weeks is not acceptable, and while he\u2019s hesitant to step in to push the pace along, he urged both sides to counsel their witnesses to stop being \u2018reluctant to answer even the most harmless questions\u2019\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nascar-antitrust-lawsuit-michael-jordan-aa1b84152e9ade9b23fa369cbcc8758e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nascar-antitrust-lawsuit-michael-jordan-aa1b84152e9ade9b23fa369cbcc8758e\">AP, 12\/4<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judge Kenneth Bell \u201cadmonished both sides\u201d in the NASCAR antitrust lawsuit over the \u201cslow pace of the trial,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,14088,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-330953","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-legal","11":"tag-nascar","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330953","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=330953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}