{"id":331027,"date":"2025-12-07T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/331027\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T21:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:02:09","slug":"more-reax-as-jordan-wows-jury-in-nascar-antitrust-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/331027\/","title":{"rendered":"More reax as Jordan wows jury in NASCAR antitrust trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">As noted above, 23XI Racing co-owner Michael Jordan took the stand Friday in the team\u2019s antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR and \u201cone memorable line\u201d he delivered \u201cconcerned NASCAR CEO Jim France and the lack of risk that France takes, compared to the sport\u2019s star drivers when they race each weekend.\u201d Jordan said, \u201cI never saw Jim France drive a car. I never saw Jim France risk his life. What I\u2019m saying is give a little more credit to the people who take that risk each and every day.\u201d That statement \u201cechoed across a pin-drop quiet courtroom.\u201d The jury was \u201criveted to Jordan,\u201d who \u201clargely came across well.\u201d He \u201chad been well-coached, sure, but His Airness has always known how to play to an audience.\u201d The jury saw \u201c\u2018Serious Michael\u2019 &#8212; a dispassionate, smart businessman successfully burying that alpha male personality in support of the cause.\u201d Jordan \u201cshot and scored Friday,\u201d as NASCAR\u2019s lawyers \u201cdidn\u2019t try very hard to trip him up in cross-examination &#8212; they were practically deferential\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nascar-auto-racing\/article313392733.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/nascar-auto-racing\/article313392733.html\">CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 12\/6<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As noted above, 23XI Racing co-owner Michael Jordan took the stand Friday in the team\u2019s antitrust lawsuit against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,14088,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-331027","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\/331027","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=331027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}