Team owner brands NASCAR as a “communist regime” amidst charter deal saga

The NASCAR teams, despite signing the new charter agreement seems to be not thrilled with the sanctioning body

Team owner brands NASCAR as a “communist regime” amidst charter deal saga

Team owner brands NASCAR as a “communist regime” amidst charter deal saga

The 2024 season has been marked with the back and forth between teams and NASCAR over the new charter agreement that will come into effect in 2025 and will last till 2031. The situation currently is pretty tenses in the garage with two teams, 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports, refusing sign it over differences.

Even the teams who have signed the deal did because according to reports they were forced to do over fear of blowback from NASCAR. Many team owners have made bold and wild claims anonymously with the media over the current deal and one team owner even claimed NASCAR is acting like a communist regime.

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The Athletic journalists Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi, who reported most of the owner’s comment has discussed the details of the overall feeling among teams via their Teardown podcast. Gluck asserted that 13 of the 15 teams’ owners aren’t a fan of the deal and some even signed the deal over retribution.

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So, 13 of the 15 team owners, not thrilled but they fall in line. We have posted a story on The Athletic with a bunch of quotes from various team owners, most of whom did not want to be identified out of fear of retribution. It’s been compared to, ‘putting a gun to our head,’ one [team owner] said. ‘Communist regime.'
Jeff Gluck said via The Teardown podcast.
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FRM explains why they didn’t sign the contract

Front Row hasn’t been as outspoken as 23XI over the issue. But they have the similar concerns as the Toyota team, hence refused to sign the deal. Team owner Bob Jenkins pointed out that they were given a 105-page contract to sign in 6 hours which was not fair, and he decided not to sign it as the team was uncomfortable with it.

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It just was tough to get a 105-page contract at 6 o’clock on Friday night and then be asked to sign it by midnight. We just didn’t feel like it was the right thing to do. I don’t have anything against the guys who did sign it. I know a lot of people were uncomfortable but felt like they had to.
Bob Jenkins said.

The drama over the charter deal isn’t ending anytime soon as there will be a lot of back and forth going on over the issue. The teams and NASCAR have to find a solution soon, as if it gets dragged too long, the sport is going get hurt.

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