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Friday Morning, the legal teams of both NASCAR and the two teams suing them, 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports, went to court for oral arguments in NASCAR’s appeal of a Dec. 18 ruling that allowed the teams to race as chartered entries in 2025.

The two sides met today as part of the ongoing lawsuit filed by 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports on Oct. 2. As part of the early stages of this lawsuit, the two teams, which were held out on signing the 2025 NASCAR Charter Agreement, motioned for a preliminary injunction to compete as chartered teams throughout the lawsuit.

This gives them access to revenue sharing and automatic entry into every NASCAR Cup Series race for each of their three entries. This ruling was in spite of a release in the NASCAR Charter Agreement that said the two teams could not sue NASCAR while racing as chartered teams. The Dec. 18 ruling also allowed the two teams to be granted charters they had purchased from the now-shuttered Stewart-Haas Racing.

During the hearing, each side’s lawyer was allowed 15 minutes to discuss their claims to a panel of judges from the Fourth Circuit of Appeals.

In NASCAR’s Feb. 12 appeal brief, they claimed that the court’s Dec. 18 decision “was fraught with errors, both legally and factually.” They also claimed that the court altered the status quo by making NASCAR grant the teams Charters, though the teams did not agree to “many of the Charter’s material terms.”

NASCAR repeated this sentiment today, with attorney Christopher Yates stating that he was going to focus on three facts:

• “No court has ever held that a release of claims provision can be anticompetitive conduct in violation of section two of the Sherman Act.”
• “A release does not harm competition. A release, of course, just focuses on the claims between the two parties.”
• Yates also stated that the injunction was mandatory and guaranteed payments to teams that did not sign the 2025 charters, thereby harming NASCAR and other racing teams.

23XI and FRM attorney Jeffrey Kessler claims, “there’s no legal dispute, this is a factual dispute.” However, his claims did see pushback, with the main question being whether the teams, by getting the contract but not the release, were attempting to have their cake and eat it too.

Judge Paul Niemeyer said he doesn’t see how the release addresses competition, saying, “If you don’t want the contract, you don’t enter into it, and you sue. Or if you want the contract, you enter into it, and you’ve given up past releases. But I think our Omega* observation is you can’t have your cake and eat it too.”

You can listen to the entire video via YouTube above. Yates (NASCAR) begins at 15:30 and Kessler (23XI and FRM) at 31:00.

The teams and NASCAR are set to meet for a two-week trial in December. However, there are active counterclaims, with NASCAR filing a counterclaim on Apr. 17. Hopefully, this suit should be completed prior to the start of the 2026 season.

If the two teams lose this appeal, they will have to compete as open teams this season. We have covered this lawsuit extensively via the link below.

*Editors note: This is in reference to Omega World Travel vs TWA, a precedent case being used.

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Rookie Lochie Hughes led all 35 laps of the Indianapolis Grand Prix Race 1 to earn his first career INDY NXT by Firestone victory on Friday on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.

2024 USF Pro 2000 champion Hughes, from Australia, drove his No. 26 McGinley Clinic/USF Pro Championship car fielded by Andretti Global to victory by .7229 of a second over the No. 76 HMD Motorsports car of veteran Caio Collet.

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“This is an awesome weekend so far,” Hughes said. “I can’t thank the whole team enough. It’s been a tough jump to this series. It’s a big step from what I was in, so I’ve been playing catch-up for a while.

“It’s nice to finally get a win, especially around here. What a day. My parents are here, as well, this weekend, and they’re not usually here, so I think it’s the first time they’ll see me win in a long time because they don’t come over (to America) much. Pretty cool.”

Veteran Myles Rowe finished a career-best third in the No. 99 Abel/Force Indy machine. Callum Hedge (No. 17 Abel Motorsports) and Salvador de Alba (No. 27 Grupo Indi of Andretti Global) rounded out the top five.

Hughes started from the pole and opened a 1.6813-second lead before a caution on Lap 10 when Juan Manuel Correa and Niels Koolen went off course in Turn 1. Hughes then led the field to green on the Lap 12 restart and quickly built a 2.3395-second advantage by the halfway mark on Lap 18. His lead blossomed to 2.6693 seconds before teammate James Roe crashed in Turn 14 on Lap 29, collecting 16-year-old Nikita Johnson and triggering the second and final caution of the race.

Hughes kept the lead on a restart, this time on Lap 31, and held off Collet for victory. Andretti Global has won 12 of the last 14 INDY NXT by Firestone races, dating back to Race 2 of last year’s Indianapolis race weekend.

“I was pretty annoyed when I kept seeing the yellow come out,” Hughes said. “I was just trying to get a good jump off the last corner there and brake late into (Turn) 1 and make sure I don’t get passed.”

Hughes pulled to within three points of series leader and Andretti Global teammate Dennis Hauger with the victory. Hauger, who won the first two races of the season, finished eighth in the No. 28 Rental Group car.

Hauger started second but had contact with Hedge in Turn 1 on the opening lap, forcing his car off track. He returned to the racetrack last in the 21-car field. He steadily climbed through the day and was in 13th at the first caution and eighth by the second yellow.

Race 2 of the doubleheader, another 35-lap contest, starts at 1 p.m. ET Saturday on FS1, the FOX Sports app and the INDYCAR Radio Network. Hughes and Hauger once again will share the front row, with Hughes on the pole.

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Dade County High School’s Coed Varsity Bass Fishing team made waves this season — and none bigger than the performance of standout anglers River McBryar and Jake Harris, who were officially named Anglers of the Year at the Northwest Georgia High School Anglers Association’s end-of-season banquet on Thursday.

The talented pair clinched the top honor by finishing 1st place out of 58 total teams, representing 13 schools from across the region. Their consistent performances throughout the season earned them the highest cumulative score, showcasing not only their skill but also their dedication to the sport.

Held annually, the banquet recognizes outstanding achievement in high school bass fishing, a growing competitive sport that blends strategy, teamwork, and a deep respect for the outdoors. This year’s event celebrated a season of strong competition and camaraderie among young anglers.

The Northwest Georgia High School Anglers Association extended congratulations to all participants, praising the sportsmanship and effort of every student who competed.

As the season concludes, Dade County High’s bass fishing program can take pride in its growing success — and look forward to another year of casting, competing, and conquering.

CLAREMONT, N.H. — Claremont Motorsports Park is excited to announce that the highly anticipated Summer Six-Pack Series for the R.E. Hinkley Superstreets will officially begin on Sunday, May 25, with the running of the Todd Martel Memorial. Originally scheduled for Friday, May 23, the event has been rescheduled to Sunday evening at 6 p.m.

Track management made the decision to move the event after evaluating the challenges of holding two major Superstreet races on the same weekend. Given the significant cost and effort involved for race teams, the move was made in the best interest of the competitors and to ensure a successful kickoff to the Summer Six-Pack Series.

“We want to give teams every opportunity to compete without having to stretch resources,” said track GM Mike Parks. “The Todd Martel Memorial deserves a great showing, and we believe Sunday night will deliver just that. This will be a 60 Lap $2,000 to win event”

The Summer Six-Pack Series promises to bring intense Super Street action to fans all season long, and the Todd Martel Memorial will set the tone with one of the most competitive fields of the year.

More information, including ticket pricing and full weekend schedule, will be released soon via Claremont Motorsports Park’s official channels.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — One year ago, Chris Buescher was beaten by Kyle Larson at Kansas Speedway by the blink of the eye.

Less than a blink of an eye.

The official margin of victory for the spring race at the track was 0.001 seconds, the closest in NASCAR Cup Series history, and nobody has forgotten it. Not the way that Larson came slinging around the outside of Turns 3 and 4, nor how they were nose-to-nose at the wire, nor how broadcasters thought that Buescher had held him off for the win.

“Certainly at that moment, thought we got it just by my eye,” Buescher recalled this week. “I was probably a little biased.”

It wasn’t until they had nearly finished their cool-down lap that Larson learned he had won.

And that Buescher learned he had not.

“At the end of the day, it was, you know — it was ‘that’ close, right?” Buescher said. “Like I said, played a lot of things in our head that week on what we would have done different, and maybe it would have ended in a different result. But ultimately, it doesn’t matter until we have a chance to replay it.”

They get that chance on Sunday when the Cup Series returns to Kansas Speedway.

Larson is off to another sensational start to the season, with wins at Homestead and Bristol, and three consecutive top-5 runs after his fourth-place finish last week at Texas. He’s the betting favorite to repeat at Kansas and start a busy three-week stretch that includes another shot at the “the Double” — the Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day later this month.

Buescher hasn’t had nearly the same success. His best finish has been a fifth at Phoenix, and in the last three races, he has not finished better than 18th, which is where he put his Ford for RFK Racing last week at Texas.

But perhaps a return to the Heartland will turn around some fortunes. Forget for a moment that he was oh-so-close to winning at Kansas last year, and remember that he not only finished second in the spring but ran a strong 11th in the fall race.

He also had a strong run at Kansas in 2015, when he won the Xfinity Series championship.

Buescher recalled that season this week when he was thinking back to last year’s run at Kansas. Sure, his crew may have been celebrating in his pit stall, thinking he had beaten Larson to the line. But the fella behind the wheel refused to begin celebrating until everything became official — which, of course, turned out to be a good idea.

“I’m not one to celebrate too early, because I just have bad feelings all the time,” Buescher said. “I go back to our championship in Xfinity in 2015. We went into the race, we had to finish 13th, I believe was the number, no matter what (Chase) Elliott did, and we finish that race — no matter what, it was a lock. And I was being yelled at for racing, you know? For trying to pass for sixth or seventh. I was being yelled at by everybody.

“Anyway, we come across the line and we finished the top 10, I think. And you know, it was better than 13th, I know that. And I knew it at the time. So I knew we were done. And I still couldn’t bring myself to celebrate until somebody said something.”

Buescher knows he will always be part of Cup Series history after that photo-finish a year ago. It edged the 2003 spring race at Darlington, where Ricky Craven and Kurt Busch banged doors for the lead, as the closest in Cup Series history. The margin in that case was 0.002 seconds, or double the time between Larson and Buescher at Kansas.

The spring race at Talladega in 2011 also had a 0.002-second margin when Jimmie Johnson beat Clint Bowyer to the finish line.

“We’re chasing a thousandth of a second every week. … You’re chasing fractions all the time. Ultimately, it’s what we signed up to do,” Buescher said. “If it was 1,000th of a second for fifth and sixth, it wouldn’t have stung. But you know, for a win, it makes you relive it for a little bit. But again, it’s just, it’s our world, right? We are always chasing these minute details.”