The NASCAR Cup Series team owned by NBA legend Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin scored a big win in their antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR yesterday when a judge granted a temporary injunction allowing them to compete in the 2025 season as chartered teams.

Michael Jordan's 23XI Racing, along with Front Row Motorsports, filed a brief requesting to deny NASCAR's stay for a preliminary injunction that would block the groups from participating as charter teams in 2025,

XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports won a key legal victory, securing the right to race as chartered teams in 2025 amid the lawsuit against NASCAR.

The judge on Monday denied a motion by NASCAR that would have prevented the teams from acquiring one race team charter each with full rights from the recently shuttered Stewart-Haas Racing. The ongoing legal battle between Michael Jordan's 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports versus NASCAR took a key turn over the past week when U.

Michael Jordan's 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports challenge NASCAR's legal maneuvers over charter transfers, seeking to continue as chartered teams for the 2025 season amidst an ongoing antitrust lawsuit.

As a matter of practicality, NASCAR and 23XI Racing have come to an agreement of sorts on Christmas Eve concerning the charter it is acquiring from Stewart-Haas Racing. Last week, the federal judge overseeing the antitrust lawsuit granted Front Row Motorsports its injunction request to force NASCAR to approve its own charter acquisition from the shuttered Stewart-Haas.