The money game in NASCAR has been kept under wraps for many years. No one outside the garage could fully understand the mix of sponsor money, prize checks, and ambiguous “team revenue” lines. However, that curtain was just lifted with Judge Kenneth D. Bell’s decision to grant 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports a summary judgment against NASCAR. In conjunction, a number of NASCAR lawsuit-related documents were unredacted and unsealed.

But while the majority of people were obsessed with the numbers game, there was something much more intriguing concealed in that stack of court documents. The co-owner of Joe Gibbs Racing sent a letter in 2024 that, looking back, accurately reflected the same frustrations that are currently driving Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan’s fight in the NASCAR la

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