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The financial terms of the legal settlement between 23XI Racing, Front Row Motorsports and NASCAR<\/a> are confidential, but one thing is clear: The value of every NASCAR team has gone up.<\/p>\n The key result of the settlement was making the 36 NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series car charters permanent, which makes them a better investment than before.<\/p>\n The charters were originally handed out in 2016 for free to select full-time teams, who were then able to sell and trade them on the open market. Each one guarantees a starting spot in every Cup Series race and a share of NASCAR\u2019s revenue.<\/p>\n The last one sold prior to the settlement ent for $45 million, despite the fact that the charter system could be dissolved in 2031 if a new agreement with NASCAR wasn\u2019t reached.<\/p>\n CLICK TO BOOST AMERICAN CARS AND AND RACING IN YOUR SEARCH RESULTS<\/a><\/p>\n Charters are now evergreen, but the revenue sharing terms with NASCAR will still need to be renegotiated at the end of each contract. Even in the case of a team being forced to sell their charter due to rules violations or other matters, it will have the opportunity to sell the charter. In the lead-up to the trial, 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports simply had their charters revoked without any compensation for not signing the most recent agreement.<\/p>\n NASCAR team executives now tell Sports Business Journal<\/a> that the value of the charters immediately increased in the wake of the settlement, with the most optimistic saying they are now worth $90-$100 million.<\/p>\n Dale Earnhardt Jr. speculated on his podcast that they could be worth as much as $150 million. Earnhardt does not own a Cup Series team, but his JR Motorsports operation does race in the Xfinity Series, which does not have a charter system.<\/p>\n CLICK TO BOOST AMERICAN CARS AND AND RACING IN YOUR SEARCH RESULTS<\/a><\/p>\n NASCAR will continue to offer up to four open starting positions at races for non-chartered teams to qualify for and JR Motorsports will be entering the Daytona 500<\/a> for the second year in a row in 2026, after Justin Allgaier finished ninth in the season-opener this year.<\/p>\n LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE TO THE GAS: AN AMERICAN CARS AND RACING PODCAST<\/a><\/p>\n Follow American Cars And Racing across our social media on X<\/a>, Flipboard<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>, Reddit<\/a>,\u00a0Instagram<\/a>, and Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t\t