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Dec 9, 2025
Where antitrust lawsuit trial stands entering second week
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A busy week in a Charlotte courthouse pitted 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports against NASCAR and CEO Jim France. Now, this antitrust lawsuit trial will continue into its second week.
The legal team representing the Plaintiffs (23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports) will continue presenting its case. This side aims to prove that NASCAR has used its monopoly status and anti-competitive acts to hurt teams while simultaneously enriching the France family.
The legal team representing the Defendants (NASCAR and France) will aim to prove that it did nothing illegal over the past seven decades, particularly the charter era that began in 2016 and continued with the 2025 Charter Agreement.
Based on NASCAR's line of questioning in the first week, it will also continue to highlight 23XI Racing co-owner Curtis Polk as a central antagonist of the charter negotiations that lasted from June 2022 until Sept. 6, 2024.
Before heading back to the courthouse to kick off the second week of this trial, let's look back at how the first week progressed.
The witnesses we have seen testify
The first day of trial only had one witness take the stand, James Dennis Hamlin, due to jury selection taking up considerable time. The NASCAR driver spent under an hour on the stand last Monday before returning on Tuesday for roughly three more hours.
The week continued with NASCAR Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer Scott Prime taking the stand on Tuesday and Wednesday. Front Row Motorsports owner Bob Jenkins then followed on Wednesday and Thursday.
NASCAR President Steve O'Donnell followed Jenkins as he took the stand on Thursday. He remained there through the end of the day before returning on Friday.
The final day of trial featured three other witnesses taking the stand after O'Donnell. Joe Gibbs Racing co-owner Heather Gibbs, 23XI Racing majority owner Michael Jordan, and Race Team Alliance Executive Director Jonathan Marshall all provided testimony.
Gibbs and Jordan eac
