Michael Jordan career team to deal with legal actions

Nascar is accusing 23XI of races of violations “deliberately” of the antitrust laws, as shown in the judicial documents. The company is co -owner for the six -time NBA champion Michael Jordan.

A controversial two -year negotiation period on the new agreements Charter led to demand. Charters are Nascar equivalent of a franchise model. The teams that have a charter receive a minimum of 36 places every race weekend.

A claim of 30 pages presented in the West district of North Carolina argued that Jordan’s entity, more specifically, the Curtis Polk commercial manager, eluded the antitrust laws to orchestrate the anti -competitive collective behavior in relation to the most recent letter agreements. Polk appears as accused in the presentation.

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Front Row Motorsports also refused to sign the new agreements, which were presented to the teams last September shortly before the start of the Nascar playoffs. The Bob Jenkins restaurant entrepreneur has Frond Row Motorsports. In addition to Jordan, Polk and the pilot Denny Hamlin are co -owners of 23xi Racing.

The cards were fought by the teams before the 2016 season and have spread twice. The last extension is for seven years to match the current media rights agreement. 23xi and First row they refused to sign and demanded, claiming that Nascar and the France family, owner of the series of series cars, are a monopoly.

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Nascar was defeated in the first round in court. The two teams have been recognized as authorized organizations for the 2025 season as the legal dispute rolled through the courts. Nascar has also appealed the decision to dismiss the case.

“Today’s reconvention of Nascar is a distraction without merit and a desperate attempt to remove the attention of his own illegal and monopolistic actions,” said lawyer Jeffrey Kessler, who represents 23xi and first row, in a statement.

“Nascar agreed the joint negotiations that now attack. When these joint negotiations failed, they used individual negotiations to impose their terms Charter, that most teams decided that they had no choice but to accept.”

The convention suggested that Polk was the leader in the fight against the proposals of the current letter. Nascar’s lawyer, Christopher Yates, told Associated Press that Polk lacks a complete understanding of Nascar’s business model.

“Curtis Polk basically orchestrated and threatened a boycott of one of the classification races for an important event, and others did not accompany him,” said Yates. “He won other teams to boycott a meeting required by the letter. When you have a boycott threatened with the qualified races that are covered by the media, that is not good for other race equipment, it is not good when you try to grow collectively the sport.”

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The classification career in question was the 150 -mile duel couple last year who established the field for the Daytona 500.

“I don’t think Mr. Polk really understand the sport,” Yates added. “I think he entered him, and his opinion is that it should be much more similar to the NBA or other league sports. But it is not. No motoring is like that. It has done many things that could work in the NBA or could be fine in the NBA, but it is simply not appropriate in Nascar.”

Meanwhile, Jordan has previously stated that he is demanding Nascar on behalf of all teams so that everyone can have an equal position in terms of benefits as a participant in the Motorsports League in the United States.

Associated Press contributed to this report.

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