Before the NASCAR lawsuit was launched, race teams had a common demand. For 2+ years, the Race Team Alliance clamored for permanent charters for the sake of economic stability and sponsor trust. But NASCAR abruptly dropped a new charter deal with a short deadline while ignoring those demands. That is when Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin decided to go into beast mode, refusing to sign the deal and launching a lawsuit.
From the beginning, Denny Hamlin and Co. stressed that their primary goal was to improve the sport. 23XI Racing’s co-owners, Michael Jordan and Curtis Polk, professed they want to reform the sport and cut down the ‘monopolistic’ practices of the sanctioning body. However, NASCAR is now trying to prove its bad intentions for the sport, inviting a rebuttal from Hamlin.
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