For months now, the tension between NASCAR’s power structure and several longtime team owners has felt heavier than usual. The sport has already been navigating a messy stretch with its charter negotiations, an antitrust lawsuit hanging overhead, and owners publicly voicing frustrations about how decisions are being made behind closed doors.
Amidst this, the leaked chats of NASCAR Commissioner Steve Phelps from 2023, showing his disrespect towards Richard Childress, have made things worse. It has revealed some shocking insults aimed directly at Childress, and he has certainly not taken this well.
Childress will see NASCAR in court
Now, RCR says it’s considering a lawsuit over them. The remarks, shared during discovery in the ongoing antitrust case involving 23XI Racing and Front Row M

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