The drama surrounding the ongoing antitrust lawsuit filed by Michael Jordan’s 23XI Racing team and Front Row Motorsports which alleges NASCAR uses “anticompetitive and exclusionary practices” just took another twist. The 2025 NASCAR charter agreement that teams are required sign in order to guarantee their qualification for every points race has now been made public.
The NASCAR charter agreement is at the center of the lawsuit as neither 23XI Racing nor Front Row Motorsports agreed to sign it prior to the 2025 racing season. The lawsuit claims NASCAR uses the agreement to “enrich themselves at the expense of the premier stock car racing teams.”
According to documents shared on X by motorsports reporter Bob Pockrass, in 2025 charter NASCAR racing teams get paid a base of $141,000 per event. That number multiplied by the 38 events on the NASCAR calendar comes to $5.358 million per team.
Here is how the performance plan works: pic.twitter.com/uKnZJXguG2
— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) October 29, 2025
How much does it cost to fund a NASCAR race team?
Denny Hamlin, co-owner of 23XI Racing, said in 2024 that it costs $18 million to run a NASCAR team. Former NASCAR driver Landon Cassill, responding to Hamlin’s claim, later clarified, “There’s a little conundrum there where what Hamlin is saying is truthful. He’s trying to field a competitive team, and it takes $18 million to field a competitive team. NASCAR’s position in hearing these team owners sort of complain about how much it costs, NASCAR can very easily take this position that, ‘We’re not making you spend $18 million.'”
Hamlin countered Cassill’s statement by pointing out, “First, $18 million is just for the car on the track to put on this show each and every week (NO driver). Seems as though you think it’s excessive. Well we (teams) opened our books to NASCAR to show what exactly that money was spent on and that it was not excessive.”
He also expressed that when Cassill was incorrect in stating that any money the racing team makes over $18 million is profit. Hamlin said that, “as someone who started a team from scratch and kept it as lean as I could, there are MANY other depts at a race team that are 100% necessary to operate. Business, marketing, sponsorship, social media, it goes on and on.”
So, assuming what Denny Hamlin says is true, making $5.358 million as a NASCAR charter team is just a drop in the bucket. Thus, the lawsuit.
NASCAR fans react to the 2025 charter agreement being made public
“So no one is actually making money but NASCAR?” one fan asked after viewing the 2025 NASCAR charter agreement.
“The system is blatantly rigged to favor @NASCAR, prioritizing their profit margins over the teams’ survival,” another fan commented. “Yet, without the teams, the sport would crumble into oblivion—proof that NASCAR’s greed could eventually destroy the very foundation it relies on.”
“Wow those numbers are crazy when you compare with other major leagues,” someone else pointed out. “A lot of players alone are paid more PER game. This is for an entire team and the driver.”
“Look at all of this and explain to me why someone would pay $30 to $50 million for a charter? Go ahead, please,” read another comment.
“I fully understand why Hamlin and Jordan are pissed now,” wrote another fan.
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NASCAR Fans Stunned By How Little The 2025 Charter Agreement Actually Pays Race Teams
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