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23 XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports are filing a anti trust lawsuit against NASCAR.

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MJ-led suit: NASCAR, France family are 'bullies'

Two NASCAR teams, one co-owned by Michael Jordan, filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the stock car series and chairman Jim France, claiming the new charter system limits competition by unfairly binding teams to the series, tracks and suppliers.
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I am able to bring something to light in terms of the charters. The media gave out information about charter proposals going this summer didn't look good for the owners at all. Also I'm under the impression the team owners were forced to sign if what is being said is true. The problem is Joe Gibbs, Rick Hendrick, Richard Childress, and Roger Penske are very old and they don't want to deal with drag out in court. Rick Hendrick is the youngest of the 4 at 75 years old and Penske is the oldest at 87 years old.

Also Charters to teams matter a lot due to if a team isn't under a charter, you don't make as much money. Also the teams looking at things from a tv revenue standpoint in terms of money.

Before some ask about starting a stock car series against NASCAR, there are big problems with it. NASCAR and Speedway Motorsports own I believe almost all NASCAR scheduled tracks. Speedway Motorsports and NASCAR started buying tracks they didn't build back in the 1990s I believe. The track monopoly had mentioned in lawsuits in the past, but they didn't go nowhere.

Going against NASCAR isn't like when Indycar went against CART because Indycar was founded by one of the owners of Indianapolis Motor speedway, the home of the Indy 500. The problem here is even if a rival racing organization is formed and can race at Indianapolis Motor speedway, it would be over shadowed by the Daytona 500 due to Daytona 500 being the biggest stock car racing event out there. Also I don't see NASCAR's TV partners showing a new Stock Car organization that would go against NASCAR. There would be the disadvantage of NASCAR owning their own Radio network and Speedway Motorsports owning the other Auto Racing Network.
 
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Alex Bowman's car got disqualified after post race inspection for not meeting the minimum weight and Alex didn't advanced to the next round of the playoffs as a result.

Joey Logano now advanced to the next round of the playoffs due to Alex Bowman's car got disqualified.
 
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There is a possible scandal that NASCAR is aware. What I am referring to is Joe Gibbs racing Engineer that is in a contract year decided to give race set up information to a rival cup organization that is not in the playoffs. The team gave the engineer cash for the race set up information.
 
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NASCAR Officials now announced Bobby Allison won 85 career cups instead of 84. What happened was Bobby Allison won a race in August of 1971 at Bowman Gray Stadium.

The 1971 race in question has been controversial for many decades because of how should the recording of the race be handled. What happened was the 1971 Bowman Gray Stadium race had a combination of cup cars and NASCAR Grand American Spec cars and Bobby won the race in a Grand American Spec Car, but NASCAR treated the race as nobody won at the time for many years. What happened there a bunch rival drivers including Richard Petty cried fouled because a Grand American series car won the and shouldn't be counted as a cup race as a result.

What caused NASCAR to make this correction now is they are going Bowman Gray Stadium next car for the cup cars for the 2025 Busch Clash.

What NASCAR did to Bobby Allison was something they should've been done back when they added 2 wins to Tiny Lund's cup career. Around 2005 NASCAR decided give Tiny Lund 2 cup wins for wining 2 races in 1971 that had a field of Cup Cars and NASCAR Grand American cars despite Tiny Lund won those 2 races in a Grand American Car.
 
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Bobby Allison's family announced Bobby died at the age of 86:(.

I know Bobby didn't look well when they gave him the 85th win, but had no idea he was dying. I know Bobby didn't have the easiest life starting with that career ending Pocono crash in 1988 along with the deaths of his 2 sons.

RIP to a great driver.
 
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The start times and the channels for the cup races next have been announced except for the Daytona 500 Duels and the time of All star race open. Here is all the cup information with all start times Eastern:

Feb. 2: Winston-Salem (Clash) - 8:00 p.m. - Fox
Feb. 16: Daytona 500 - 2:30 p.m. - Fox
Feb. 23: Atlanta - 3:00 p.m. Fox
Mar. 2: Austin - 3:30 p.m. - Fox
Mar. 9: Phoenix - 3:30 p.m. - FS1
Mar. 16: Las Vegas - 3:30 p.m. - FS1
Mar. 23: Homestead - 3:00 p.m. FS 1
Mar. 30: Martinsville- 3:00 p.m. - FS 1
Apr. 6: Darlington - 3:00 p.m. - FS 1
Apr. 13: Bristol - 3:00 p.m. -FS 1
Apr. 27: Talladega - 3:00 p.m. - Fox
May 4: Texas - 3:30 p.m. - FS 1
May 11: Kansas - 3:00 p.m. - FS 1
May 18: North Wilkesboro (All-Star race itself) 8:00 p.m. - FS1
May 25: Charlotte - 6:00 p.m. - Amazon Prime
June 1: Nashville - 7:00 p.m. - Amazon Prime
June 8: Michigan - 2:00 p.m. - Amazon Prime
June 15: Mexico City - 3:00 p.m. - Amazon Prime
June 22: Pocono - 2:00 p.m. - Amazon Prime
June 28: Atlanta - 7:00 p.m. - TNT
July 6: Chicago street course - 2:00 p.m. - TNT
July 13: Sonoma - 3:30 p.m. - TNT
July 20: Dover - 2:00 p.m. - TNT
July 27: Indianapolis - 2: 00 p.m. - TNT
Aug. 3: Iowa - 3:30 p.m. - USA
Aug. 10: Watkins Glen - 2:00 p.m. - USA
Aug. 16: Richmond - 7:30 p.m. - USA
Aug. 23: Daytona - 7:30 p.m. - NBC
Aug. 31: Darlington - 6:00 p.m. - USA
Sept. 7: St. Louis - 3:00 p.m. - USA
Sept. 13: Bristol - 7:30 p.m. - USA
Sept. 21: New Hampshire - 2:00 p.m. - USA
Sept. 28: Kansas - 3:00 p.m. - USA
Oct. 5: Charlotte road course - 3:00 p.m. USA
Oct. 12: Las Vegas - 5:30 p.m. - USA
Oct. 19: Talladega - 2:00 p.m. - NBC
Oct. 26: Martinsville - 2:00 p.m. - NBC
Nov. 2: Phoenix - 3:00 p.m. - NBC
 
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The start times for all the Xfinity series races for 2025 have been announced. Here is the information for the 2025 Xfinity series schedule with all times being Eastern:
Feb. 15: Daytona - 5:00 p.m. - CW
Feb. 22: Atlanta - 5:00 p.m. - CW
Mar. 1: Austin - 2:30 p.m. -CW
Mar. 8: Phoenix - 5:00 p.m. - CW
Mar. 15: Las Vegas - 4:30 p.m. - CW
Mar. 22: Homestead - 4:00 p.m. -CW
Mar. 29: Martinsville - 5:00 p.m. -CW
Apr. 5: Darlington - 3:30 p.m. - CW
Apr. 12: Bristol - 5:00 p.m. -CW
Apr. 19: Rockingham - 4:00 p.m. -CW
Apr. 26: Talladega - 4:00 p.m. - CW
May 3: Texas - 2:00 p.m. - CW
May 24: Charlotte - 4:30 p.m. - CW
May 31: Nashville 7:30 p.m. -CW
June 14: Mexico City - 4:30 p.m. - CW
June 21: Pocono - 3:30 p.m. -CW
June 27: Atlanta - 7:30 p.m. - CW
July 5: Chicago street course - 4:30 p.m. - CW
July 12: Sonoma - 4: 30 p.m. - CW
July 19: Dover - 4:30 p.m. -CW
July 26: Indianapolis - 4:30 p.m. - CW
Aug. 2: Iowa - 4:30 p.m. - CW
Aug. 9: Watkins Glen - 3:00 p.m. - CW
Aug. 22: Daytona - 7:30 p.m. - CW
Aug. 30: Portland - 7:30 p.m. - CW
Sept. 6: St. Louis - 7:30 p.m. -CW
Sept. 12: Bristol - 7:30 p.m. - CW
Sept. 27: Kansas - 4:00 p.m. CW
Oct. 4: Charlotte road course - 4:00 p.m. - CW
Oct. 11: Las Vegas - 7:30 p.m. -CW
Oct. 18: Talladega - 4:00 p.m. - CW
Oct. 25: Martinsville - 7:30 p.m. - CW
Nov. 1: Phoenix - 7:30 p.m. - CW
 
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The start times and the channels for the Truck Series races next have been announced. Here is the information for the 2025 Xfinity series schedule with all times being Eastern:

Feb. 14: Daytona - 7:30 p.m. - FS1
Feb. 22: Atlanta - 2:00 p.m. - FS 1
Mar. 14: Las Vegas - 9:00 p.m. - FS 1
Mar. 21: Homestead - 8:00 p.m. - FOX
Mar. 28: Martinsville - 7:30 p.m. -FS1
Apr. 11: Bristol - 7:30 p.m. - FS 1
April 18: Rockingham - 5:00 p.m. - FS 1
May 2; Texas - 8:00 p.m. - FS1
May 10: Kansas - 7:30 p.m. - FS 1
May 17: North Wilkesboro - 1:30 p.m. - FS 1
May 23: Charlotte - 8:30 p.m. - FS 1
May 30: Nashville - 8:00 p.m. - FS 1
June 7: Michigan - 12:00 p.m. - FOX
June 20: Pocono - 5:00 p.m. - FS 1
June 28: Lime Rock - 1:00 p.m. - FOX
July 25: IRP - 8:00 p.m. - FS 1
Aug. 8: Waktins Glen - 5:00 p.m. - FS 1
Aug. 15: Richmond - 7:30 p.m. - FS 1
Aug. 30: Darlington - 12:00 p.m. - FS 1
Sept. 11: Bristol - 8: 00 p.m. - FS 1
Sept. 20: New Hampshire - 12:00 p.m. - FS 1
Oct. 3: Charlotte road course - 3:30 p.m. - FS 1
Oct. 17: Talladega - 3:30 p.m. - FS 1
Oct. 24: Martinsville - 6:00 p.m. - FS 1
Oct. 31: Phoenix - 7:30 p.m. - FS 1
 
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RFK Racing is now expanding to 3 cars with Ryan Preece being the driver with Kroger being the sponsor.

Also Front Row Motorsports has announced Todd Gilliland will be taking over the 34 ride with sponsorship from Love's Travel Shop.
 
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JTG Daugherty Racing has been rebranded to Hyak Motorsports. The organization said Hayk means fast in Chinook Jargon.

What caused the name change is the team ownership. While Brad Daugherty is still one of the owners of the team, Tad and Jodi Geschickter are no longer owners of the race team and were the majority owners of the organization.

The majority owner of team is Gordon Smith. Gordon Smith is the owner of a Washington based ship building company called Hyak Maritime. Gordon Smith was previously the minority owner of JTG Daugherty Racing.

There is no information on what sponsor or sponsors will be replacing Kroger.
 
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