For months now, NASCAR’s biggest storyline hasn’t been about playoffs, parity, or the Next Gen car. It’s been about pressure, financial, legal, and structural building inside a sport that has always been controlled from the top down. The antitrust lawsuit filed by several charter-holding Cup Series teams has exposed frustrations that have simmered for years: shrinking margins for teams, unbalanced revenue distribution, and a governance model where the teams that fill the field have no ownership stake in the league itself.

What used to be back-channel complaints has become sworn testimony, and with every passing week, the courtroom feels less like a legal setting and more like a negotiation table for the future of American stock-car racing. That’s the environment in which one sentence, alm

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