{"id":479480,"date":"2026-02-17T00:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/479480\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T00:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:29:08","slug":"insiders-react-to-michael-jordans-presence-at-daytona-500-nascar-embrace-in-wake-of-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/479480\/","title":{"rendered":"Insiders react to Michael Jordan’s presence at Daytona 500, NASCAR embrace in wake of lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two NASCAR insiders shared how much they loved seeing Michael Jordan<\/a> celebrate his team, 23XI Racing, winning the Daytona 500 on Sunday. On The Teardown podcast<\/a>, Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi of The Athletic weighed in on Jordan\u2019s presence and on NASCAR\u2019s embrace of him following the antitrust lawsuit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s great,\u201d Gluck said. \u201cIt\u2019s a sign that NASCAR can now embrace his presence more, and it seems like he\u2019s going to do more. The fact that he\u2019s doing these interviews and all this stuff, I think it\u2019s big. I think it\u2019s really big.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bianchi also thinks that having Jordan part of NASCAR and officials embracing him will make the sport bigger. \u201cI think it\u2019s huge,\u201d he said. \u201cYou and I have talked about this a lot of what did this race need (Sunday)? \u2026It needed a good winner. It needed a good storyline. And this was it. \u2026This would be a good storyline of 23XI winning because of everything you just mentioned, Jeff, of what this means for the sport. You have this guy who is super passionate and is the biggest cheerleader.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Jordan says the Daytona 500 win was \u2018gratifying\u2019<\/p>\n

Tyler Reddick of 23XI won the Daytona 500 after surviving two wrecks on the final lap. The win was big for the team as it was involved in a lawsuit with NASCAR, which ended with the sides agreeing to a settlement. Front Row Motorsports was also part of the lawsuit with 23XI.<\/p>\n

After the race, Michael Jordan reacted to being a Daytona 500 champion.\u201d I can\u2019t even believe it. It was so gratifying. We had four guys that were really fighting, helping each other out. You never know how these races are going to end. You just try to survive,\u201d Jordan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought Riley [Herbst] did an unbelievable job pushing at the end. That shows you what teamwork can really, really do. He doesn\u2019t get enough credit. He won\u2019t get enough credit. But we feel the love. We understand exactly what he did. We hung in there all day. Great strategy by the team, and we gave ourselves a chance at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jordan founded 23XI Racing with three-time Daytona 500 champion Denny Hamlin in 2020. The team has won 10 Cup Series races and a regular-season championship (Reddick) in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two NASCAR insiders shared how much they loved seeing Michael Jordan celebrate his team, 23XI Racing, winning the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,19546,3004,634,82],"class_list":["post-479480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daytona-500","tag-michael-jordan","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479480","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=479480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}