{"id":350830,"date":"2025-12-17T09:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350830\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T09:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:55:13","slug":"nascar-insider-calls-for-ceo-jim-france-to-step-down-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350830\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR insider calls for CEO Jim France to step down in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR has completed its trial against 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports. Following NASCAR chief executive officer Jim France&#8217;s time on the stand, the sport <a href=\"https:\/\/motorsportswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/motor\/nascar\/2025\/12\/11\/nascar-settlement-23xi-racing-front-row-motorsports\/87719734007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reached a settlement with 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports<\/a> the next day. However, one NASCAR insider doesn&#8217;t want the settlement to stop the sport from making more changes.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletic&#8217;s Jeff Gluck wrote an article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6884976\/2025\/12\/12\/nascar-settlement-jim-france-future-owner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">calling for France to step down as NASCAR&#8217;s chief executive officer<\/a> following the trial. This comes after France was dead set on not giving the teams more power during negotiations, including the possibility of &#8220;permanent charters.&#8221; Ultimately, every NASCAR team won as the <a href=\"https:\/\/motorsportswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/motor\/nascar\/2025\/12\/15\/daniel-hemric-returns-mcanally-hilgemann-racing-2026-season\/87770725007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">charters became permanent<\/a> following the settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Following the trial, NASCAR is tasked with rebuilding its reputation with the fans and teams, making leadership changes a possible outcome. NASCAR was damaged by the texts, emails, and unveilings that were best left in private. Now, the sport needs to move forward with its best intentions, and a new chief executive officer might be an option.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\">More: <a href=\"https:\/\/motorsportswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/motor\/nascar\/2025\/12\/15\/jr-motorsports-path-nascar-cup-big-hit-charter-news\/87770681007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JR Motorsports&#8217; path to NASCAR Cup takes big hit after charter news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR has completed its trial against 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports. Following NASCAR chief executive officer Jim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[9680,2571,49,48,637,634,44051,44,1333,44056,582,82,865],"class_list":["post-350830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-auto","tag-auto-racing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-france","tag-nascar","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350830","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=350830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}