{"id":82211,"date":"2025-08-19T22:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/82211\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:15:07","slug":"nascar-pushes-back-on-23xi-racing-and-front-row-motorsports-claiming-hurt-from-losing-charters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/82211\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR pushes back on 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports claiming hurt from losing charters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">NASCAR believes that 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports have \u201cno standing to claim they are suffering from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/18\/judge-denies-23xi-front-row-chartered-status\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/18\/judge-denies-23xi-front-row-chartered-status\/\">not having charters this season<\/a>\u201d as they \u201cwill qualify for all remaining races, and none of their drivers have left their race teams,\u201d according to Kelly Crandall of RACER. NASCAR\u2019s argument was part of a filing late Monday night in \u201copposition to the two organizations seeking a new preliminary injunction.\u201d Both sides will be in court Aug. 28 for a \u201chearing on the matter, which will determine if 23XI and Front Row are recognized as charter teams.\u201d 23XI and FRM had four combined charters during the 2024 season, and each organization \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/06\/06\/front-row-stewart-haas-racing-charter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/06\/06\/front-row-stewart-haas-racing-charter\/\">bought a third one from Stewart-Haas Racing<\/a>.\u201d However, NASCAR has previously argued that by not signing the charter agreement, the two organizations have \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/12\/12\/front-row-motorsports-nascar-charter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/12\/12\/front-row-motorsports-nascar-charter\/\">no rights to charters<\/a> and NASCAR is free to move them.\u201d NASCAR now argues that 23XI and FRM \u201cwanting the court to keep NASCAR from moving the charters is harming the sport.\u201d Crandall notes since there are \u201cinterested parties (those in NASCAR and other racing motorsports) in the charters, NASCAR wants to present them an opportunity to bid on the charters to be able to prepare within the appropriate timeframe to race in 2026\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/racer.com\/2025\/08\/19\/nascar-disputes-that-23xi-front-row-are-suffering-due-to-non-charter-status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/racer.com\/2025\/08\/19\/nascar-disputes-that-23xi-front-row-are-suffering-due-to-non-charter-status\">RACER, 8\/19<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR believes that 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports have \u201cno standing to claim they are suffering from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-82211","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-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82211","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=82211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}