Teams Offered NASCAR a Resolution for Ongoing Preliminary Injunction, Though NASCAR Declined

What’s Happening?

23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports have filed a response to NASCAR’s list of Charter commitments filed Friday afternoon. In it, the teams list what they offered NASCAR to withdraw their ongoing injunction, though NASCAR declined this offer.

Here is what the teams offered to make the preliminary injunction request go away:

— NASCAR won't change the rule that allows the teams to make every race for the rest of this year (NASCAR already said this in their Friday notice)
— NASCAR won't transfer any of the six former…

— Jeff Gluck (@jeff_gluck) September 2, 2025

NASCAR’s filing on Friday made several commitments such as claiming they would not not issue more charters this season, or “more than four additional” charters for next season.

Following this filing, which NASCAR claimed made the team’s preliminary injunction to remain chartered and prevent NASCAR from selling or moving their charters moot, Jeffery Kessler, the two teams’ lawyer, claimed the teams would respond on Tuesday.

In this latest filing, the teams pushed back against the claim that their injunction, which was heard in court last Thursday, was moot. The teams also listed the commitments and representations they claim would have made them withdraw the injunction.

Among these were things that NASCAR offered in their filing Friday, such as maintaining a rule that protected the team’s entry into upcoming races, and that NASCAR will not sell or transfer charters this season, and no more than four additional charters for next season.

However, one area where the teams differed was with the two charters formerly owned by Stewart-Haas Racing.

The teams acquired these charters via a transaction that the court pushed through with a now-overturned injunction in December; now, NASCAR seeks to undo the sale of those charters. In their filing Tuesday, the teams asked that NASCAR “will not challenge the fact that Plaintiffs own the SHR Charters unless and until the Court orders the unwinding and sale of the SHR Charters.”

The teams also asked that if there are additional charters distributed, from the four currently held from distribution by NASCAR since the system’s 2016 introduction, and 23XI and FRM are granted their six charters after the trial, the teams will also retain their “rights to the car number, historical or championship points and any performance-related standards history outlined in Section 6.12 of the 2025 Charter Agreement.”

Following this list, the filing states that NASCAR “refused to make any changes to their commitments and representations, which left Plaintiffs with no choice other than to maintain their Motion for Preliminary Injunction to seek to preserve the status quo through the trial.”

This means that a ruling on the preliminary injunction will still be released later this week.The charter saga is just one of many storylines stemming from the two teams’ Oct. 2, 2024, antitrust lawsuit filed against NASCAR. We have extensively covered all aspects of this lawsuit via the timeline linked below.

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