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The injunction, which NASCAR can appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, will last only for the duration of the 2025 NASCAR Cup season.
During that time—and assuming the case doesn’t settle or that NASCAR doesn’t prevail in an appeal—NASCAR will be barred from denying 23XI Racing and Front Row the same terms offered to charter teams.
However, in a move that places 23XI Racing and Front Row in a superior position to charter teams, they won’t have to contractually relinquish legal claims as charter teams have done.
NASCAR will also be barred from refusing to approve the teams’ purchase of two Stewart-Haas Racing charters, which will let them compete.
This was the Jordan group’s second try for a preliminary injunction.
Last month, U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney rejected the first motion for a preliminary injunction, which led to a short-lived and aborted appeal by 23XI Racing and Front Row to the Fourth Circuit.
Whitney, who was reassigned from the case earlier this month, reasoned that 23XI Racing and Front Row failed to establish a tangible, specific harm in terms of loss of drivers, sponsorships and fans that would have resulted without an injunction.
As Whitney saw it, the alleged harms were speculative and conjectural and fell short of what is necessary to gain a preliminary injunction, which is considered an extraordinary form of relief in law.
Whitney’s denial was without prejudice, meaning 23XI Racing and Front Row could try again. They did just that.
The new judge, Bell, found that 23XI Racing and Front Row corrected deficiencies from their first attempt for a preliminary injunction. Bell wrote the teams could now show specific harms.
For instance, 23XI driver Tyler Reddick informed his team he believed it was in breach of his driver and personal services agreement that requires 23XI be a charter team.
23XI Racing also had 30 days to cure that problem, which is legally valuable to 23XI Racing and Front Row for purposes of establishing the risk of imminent harm without an injunction.