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NASCAR opens mobility pit box to direct fan requests, bringing more fans closer to the action. Reading Time: 7 mins read Revamped web portal gives fans with mobility challenges a new way to. request access to the unique pit-road experience at select NASCAR events. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Oct. 7, 2026) - NASCAR is making it easier for fans with mobility challenges to experience one of the most unique vantage points in motorsports by opening applications for the unique Mobility Pit Box experience to all mobility-impaired fans through a new application portal. During Charlotte Motor Speedway's fall race weekend, NASCAR will spotlight a new pathway for fans to learn more about the NASCAR Mobility Pit Box and directly request access to the experience through NASCAR.com/MobilityPitBox, creating a new opportunity for fans to discover and participate in the program. The new NASCAR.com destination provides fans with an access request form that is shared with host-track ticket offices based on event availability. In addition, NASCAR will expand the availability of the Mobility Pit Box schedule to four new race weekends in 2027. The full 2027 mobility pit box schedule will include: * Daytona International Speedway (Feb. 18-21) * Las Vegas Motor Speedway (March 20-21) * Darlington Raceway (Apr. 2-4) * Texas Motor Speedway (Apr. 30-May 2) * Kansas Speedway (May 8-9) * Charlotte Motor Speedway (May 28-30) * Nashville Superspeedway (June 4-6) * Michigan International Speedway (June 19-20) * Chicagoland Speedway (June 26-27) * Sonoma Raceway (July 10-11) * EchoPark Speedway (July 17-18)* * Indianapolis Motor Speedway (July 24-25) * NASCAR San Diego Weekend (July 31-Aug. 1) * Richmond Raceway (Sept. 10-11) * New Hampshire Motor Speedway (Sept. 25-26) * Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Oct. 9-10) * Charlotte Motor Speedway (Oct. 15-17) * Phoenix Raceway (Oct. 22-24) * Homestead-Miami Speedway (Nov. 12-14) *Denotes new location for Mobility Pit Box. All dates subject to change. The Mobility Pit Box launched in February 2024 and was brought to life through Toyota's commitment to "Mobility for All" to deliver a pit-road experience to hundreds of guests across the country. "At NASCAR, we want every fan to have the opportunity to experience the sport in a meaningful way, and the Mobility Pit Box is a great example of what that commitment looks like in action," said Eric Nyquist, Chief Impact Officer, NASCAR. "We've created an experience that helps remove barriers and brings fans with mobility challenges closer to the racing they love." The move to make the experience more directly accessible to fans comes after a successful 2025 season, when the Mobility Pit Box hosted 207 guests with mobility challenges and 546 total guests. Ninety-seven percent of surveyed guests rated their experience five stars, while 64% said they were not aware of the Mobility Pit Box until they were invited. "When I got paralyzed, a lot of things got taken away from me - not only physically, but emotionally and mentally. There was so much I thought I wasn't going to be able to do anymore," said disability advocate and Founder of Wheel With Me Organizations Jesi Stracham following her experience in the NASCAR Mobility Pit Box. "I'm so grateful that this exists - not only for me, but for my community - so that we can all get to experience the love of NASCAR." The NASCAR Mobility Pit Box is designed within NASCAR-regulated 15-by-15-by-15-foot pit-box dimensions and sits on pit road just feet from live pit stops. The experience includes modular seating for guests using wheelchairs and ECVs, an adjustable wheelchair ramp with powered lift, race-broadcast viewing monitors and climate assistance. NASCAR and host tracks also coordinate accessible transportation for participating guests. The expanded fan-access approach follows a Las Vegas experience featuring former IndyCar driver, team owner, and motorsports accessibility advocate Sam Schmidt. Schmidt's firsthand experience provides an inside look at the Mobility Pit Box. "I witnessed a timing stand for 25 years as a team owner, even I was impressed. I was excited, I was happy to put the earpiece on, and I was sad to leave... it's unbelievable," said Schmidt. "I love the attention to detail. It's over the top, so for anyone who has never experienced a race before, they'd be able to say, "Wow... THIS is accessibility." Fans interested in experiencing the NASCAR Mobility Pit Box can learn more and submit a request at NASCAR.com/MobilityPitBox. About the NASCAR mobility pit box: The NASCAR Mobility Pit Box was inspired by Sam Willoughby, a BMX Racing cyclist and NASCAR fan who sustained a career-ending injury in 2016. While attending the Daytona 500 in 2020, Willoughby was asked what could improve his experience at the track. His response was simple: he wanted the opportunity to experience a NASCAR pit box. Toyota subsequently envisioned the Mobility Pit Box and led the concept from design to reality. About NASCAR: The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the sanctioning body for the No. 1 form of motorsports in the United States and owner of 15 of the nation's major motorsports entertainment facilities. NASCAR sanctions races in three national series (NASCAR Cup Series(TM), NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series(TM), and NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series(TM), four international series (NASCAR Brasil Series, NASCAR Canada Series, NASCAR Euro Series, NASCAR Mexico Series), four regional series (ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East & West and the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour) and a local grassroots series (NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series). The International Motor Sports Association(TM)(IMSA(R) governs the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship(TM), the premier U.S. sports car series. NASCAR also owns Motor Racing Network, Racing Electronics, and ONE DAYTONA.

NASCAR returns to KUSI/The CW this Saturday. Posted: Sep 30, 2026 / 10:14 AM PDT Updated: Sep 30, 2026 / 10:14 AM PDT The NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series returns to the KUSI-CW San Diego this Saturday. Driver and The CW NASCAR Analyst Parker Kligerman joined "Good Morning San Diego" to help promote the "stretch run" of the NASCAR season. Kligerman recently retired from NASCAR after a two-year run as the marquee driver for Big Machine Racing. After three wins, 39 top five finishes and 105 top ten finishes, he has been serving as an analyst for NASCAR on The CW. The CW is the exclusive broadcast home of the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series.

Why did Michael Jordan sue NASCAR? On October 2, 2024, Michael Jordan sued NASCAR. Not a rival team, not a driver, not a sponsor - NASCAR itself, the league his own team races in every weekend, along with its chairman, Jim France. The filing landed in federal court in Charlotte, in the middle of stock car country, from the most famous team owner the sport has ever had. The short answer: he believes NASCAR operates as a monopoly that keeps most of the money and all of the power, and that the contract put in front of his team in 2024 was designed to lock that arrangement in for another seven years. The long answer is a story about a league where the teams don't actually own anything - and about the one owner wealthy enough, and stubborn enough, to fight it. The team he built. Jordan didn't come to NASCAR as a celebrity tourist. In 2020 he founded 23XI Racing with driver [Denny Hamlin] - twenty-three from Jordan's number, eleven from Hamlin's - with Bubba Wallace behind the wheel of the first car. Jordan grew up in North Carolina, where stock car racing is close to a civic religion, and he wanted to own a team in it, not just lend his name to one. The team got competitive faster than new teams usually do. Wallace won at Talladega in 2021, the organization's first Cup victory. By 2024, Tyler Reddick had won the regular-season championship driving for 23XI. This was no vanity project. It was a functioning, winning business - which is exactly why the next part stung. A league where the teams own nothing. Every other major American league is owned collectively by its teams. The NFL's owners split billions and negotiate with players as a group. NASCAR is different: the France family privately owns the sanctioning body, and teams are independent businesses that pay their own drivers, crews, and travel bills in exchange for a share of the money. That share is the whole fight. According to the complaint and widespread reporting, NASCAR teams receive roughly a quarter of the sport's revenue, while the splits in football and basketball run close to half. The charter system - NASCAR's version of a franchise - guarantees an entry in every race and a slice of the money, but the charter is only as strong as the rulebook, and NASCAR writes the rulebook. In every other major American sport, the teams own the league together. In NASCAR, the league owns the teams. The contract nobody could refuse. In late 2024, NASCAR offered teams a new charter agreement running through the end of the decade, tied to a reported $7.7 billion media rights deal. Per the lawsuit and reporting around it, the terms arrived on a take-it-or-leave-it basis: a signing deadline, no room to negotiate, a requirement that teams release every legal claim against NASCAR as the price of admission, and the removal of the automatic renewal that had made charters feel like real assets. Thirty-four of thirty-six teams signed. Two didn't: 23XI and Front Row Motorsports. The same day the deadline passed, the two teams filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, accusing NASCAR of monopolizing the market for top-level stock car racing under the Sherman Antitrust Act - of coercing signatures, devaluing charters, and punishing the teams that refused. NASCAR has denied the claims and maintains the agreement was fair and negotiated in good faith. Racing without a net. The immediate problem was practical. 23XI had already arranged to buy a charter from the shutting-down Stewart-Haas Racing and asked the court to let it keep racing as a chartered team while the case proceeded. In December 2024, Judge Kenneth Bell denied the injunction. So in 2025, Jordan's team raced as an "open" team - no guaranteed protections, no charter revenue, full exposure every week. It didn't collapse. Wallace won the Brickyard 400 that summer, an unchartered team taking one of the sport's crown-jewel races mid-lawsuit, and Reddick kept the team competitive deep into the season. Meanwhile, discovery produced internal NASCAR communications that made for uncomfortable headlines, and the case survived NASCAR's attempts to end it early, with trial scheduled for December 2025 in Charlotte - before a jury, if the teams get their way. Jordan has shown up to hearings in person, which tells you what this means to him. He's the only owner in the garage who cannot be economically threatened. Why it had to be him. Other owners had complained about NASCAR's economics for years. None of them sued, and the reason is simple: suing the league you race in is expensive, retaliatory, and terrifying when NASCAR controls your access to the sport. Jordan is the exception. He's a self-made billionaire with a shoe company that answers to nobody, fame that NASCAR needs as much as he ever needed NASCAR, and a career-long pattern of refusing bad numbers from an employer - the Bulls lowballed him once, and he built a brand instead. Because he could. Strip the courtroom language out and the answer holds in two sentences. He believes the deal in front of him was both illegal and bad business, and he's the first owner in the sport's history who could afford to find out which one in court. He didn't sue because he stopped loving racing. He sued because he owns a team in it - and the numbers, as he sees them, said he was being underpaid. That has never been the kind of thing Jordan accepts quietly. Common questions about Michael Jordan's NASCAR lawsuit. Why exactly did Michael Jordan sue NASCAR? The core claim is monopolization. Jordan's team, 23XI Racing, argues that NASCAR and the France family control the market for top-level stock car racing - and use that control to keep roughly three-quarters of the sport's revenue while teams eat most of the costs. The trigger was the 2024 charter agreement, which 23XI says arrived on take-it-or-leave-it terms with an impossible deadline and a requirement that teams surrender their legal claims as the price of admission. NASCAR denies all of it and says the contract was fair. What does Michael Jordan own in NASCAR? He co-owns 23XI Racing, founded in 2020 with driver Denny Hamlin. The name is their car numbers - twenty-three and eleven. It's a real operation, not a celebrity badge: Bubba Wallace delivered its first Cup win at Talladega in 2021, and Tyler Reddick won the 2024 regular-season championship in the team's fourth season. What is a charter in NASCAR, and why does it matter? A charter is NASCAR's version of a franchise: it guarantees a team's entry into every Cup race and a share of the sport's revenue, including the media rights money. The problem, per the lawsuit, is that the charter isn't owned property - it's a revocable agreement governed by a rulebook NASCAR alone writes. Teams argue that makes their franchises worth far less than the equivalent asset in the NFL or NBA, where the teams collectively own the league. Who joined Michael Jordan in the lawsuit? Front Row Motorsports, owned by Bob Jenkins - making it two of the sport's thirty-six chartered teams. The other thirty-four signed NASCAR's agreement. Jordan is the face of the case because he's the only owner in the garage who cannot be economically threatened; Front Row's participation matters because it shows the grievances run beyond the sport's newest and wealthiest team. Did Michael Jordan's team keep racing during the lawsuit? Yes - and that's part of what makes the story remarkable. 23XI asked the court to let it compete under the old charter terms while the case played out; a judge declined in December 2024. So the team ran the 2025 season as an "open" team with no charter protections, and Bubba Wallace still won the Brickyard 400, one of NASCAR's crown-jewel races, in that configuration. The case survived NASCAR's attempts to have it dismissed, with trial set for December 2025 in Charlotte. Has NASCAR responded to the lawsuit? Consistently, and predictably: NASCAR denies the charges, calls the 2024 agreement fair and the product of good-faith negotiation, and has fought the case in court rather than settle publicly. Courts have so far declined to kill the case early, which is why it reached trial. Beyond the courtroom, the lawsuit has already shifted the conversation - several team owners have spoken more openly about the sport's economics since the filing. What happens if Michael Jordan wins? The honest answer: nobody knows, and that's why the case matters. If 23XI and Front Row prevail, the most likely outcomes are either a negotiated revenue split closer to other major sports, structural changes to how charters work - or both, with NASCAR settling other teams' claims alongside. If the teams lose, NASCAR's charter model stands, and dissenting owners will have spent years and millions for nothing but the attempt. The verdict would reshape the sport either way, which is precisely why Jordan showed up to hearings in person. Share with others