NASCAR faces Michael Jordan’s ‘gun to your head’ ultimatum in $100M antitrust trial

A courtroom fight in Charlotte, North Carolina, is testing how much power NASCAR can wield over the teams that fill its starting grid. Michael Jordan’s 23XI Racing and Bob Jenkins’ Front Row Motorsports claim the series’ business model leaves race teams deeply underpaid and structurally insecure, even as drivers “risk their lives” across a 38-race schedule. Their federal antitrust case challenges the financial and governance system built around...