Michael Jordan's federal antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR highlights the deep family ties in motorsports. Witnesses have shared emotional connections to NASCAR, starting with Denny Hamlin,

Rick Hendrick's letter to Jim France back in 2024 took the spotlight in Tuesday's trial proceedings. The team owner wrote the letter asking for a better charter deal, seeing how Hendrick Motorsports lost $20 million across five years, despite winning two championships.

NASCAR chairman and CEO Jim France explains why he enforced strict parity with the introduction of the Next Gen concept in 2022.

France, the final witness called by Kessler — who represents Michael Jordan’s 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports, the two teams who refused to sign the latest charter deal that is at the heart of this dispute and instead decided to sue NASCAR and France — was set up to give crucial testimony in a trial that had been building to this moment.

Legal expert Shannon McMinimee claims that Jim France could be liable for damages if found guilty in the antitrust trial.