CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Day three of the antitrust trial saw NASCAR Chief Strategy Officer Scott Prime and Front Row Motorsports owner Bob Jenkins take the stand as the proceedings continued to move at a snail’s pace.
Prime, who spent Tuesday afternoon on the stand, was again examined by FRM and 23XI Racing lawyer Jeffrey Kessler, was cross examined by a NASCAR attorney and then re-questioned by Kessler.
Much of the back and forth was focused on the charter negotiations between teams and NASCAR that Prime played a role in last year.
Jenkins was called to the stand in the afternoon with the questioning centered on his ownership of Front Row Motorsports, the money he has lost in an effort to make the team competitive and his reasoning for not signing the charter agreement last year.
“It was insulting, it went so far backward,” Jenkins testified. “NASCAR wanted to run the governance with an iron fist, it was like taxation without representation. NASCAR has the right to do whatever it wants.”
Thirteen of the 15 teams signed the charter agreement in the fall of 2024 with 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports refusing to sign and instead filing this antitrust lawsuit against the sanctioning body.
The trial continues Thursday morning with Jenkins returning to the stand.
