The ongoing legal battle over NASCAR’s Charter System has created a tense, uncertain landscape for unchartered teams and drivers. The antitrust lawsuit filed by Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan, co-owners of 23XI Racing, along with Front Row Motorsports, has challenged NASCAR’s monopolistic control over the system, arguing it limits competition and suppresses team value. While a preliminary injunction, which would have granted chartered status to these teams for the full 2025 season, was denied, the legal limbo has forced NASCAR to restrict ‘open’ entries to 40 cars.

This newfound rigidity in the Cup Series entry list has had an immediate, detrimental impact on drivers like Jeb Burton, whose entire 2025 season in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for Jordan Anderson Racing was supplemented by plan

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