Chandler Smith Will Race NASCAR In 2025 | NASCAR Wants Teams To Post Bond | Best Selling Diecasts

[@zachwalentiny]

I mean, this should make Chandler Smith one of the favorites for the truck championship right off the bat. It's a truck capable of winning. It'll be a battle between Heim, Majeski, and Smith all year.

[@lmq9516]

Can’t forget Hemric. He’s going to be very consistent in that 19 truck. Also can’t count out guys like Riggs or Rajah. Plus Ben Rhodes could very well decide to become a championship contender again.

[@zachwalentiny]

@@lmq9516 Hemric will be consistent, but in typical Hemric fashion I don't see him winning any races. Another guy to keep an eye on is Kaden Honeycutt. I'm excited to see what he can do in a full time ride. He was super impressive last season.

[@n1ghteng4le]

Layne Riggs will win the truck championship next year

[@ParkersSpeed]

Don't count out Rajah. I think he'll be quite good with a season under his belt.

[@patrickracer43]

The "bond" issue is going to sink NASCAR's augment

[@markalbert9011]

Judge Whitney recused himself. Recusals are usually used for a conflict of interest. I'm not surprised it came after the first ruling. That's when opposing council will reveal for the first time the conflict of interest and asks the judge to recuse himself. It's much more powerful AFTER a judge has made a ruling as he has difficulty denying it. It throws defense council for a loop and reveals just how prepared opposing council is. Pretty much SOP courtroom antics.....expect plenty more. FRM and 23XI hired the best in the business.

[@redknightsr69]

Thank you for this

[@johnhaas2523]

The judge was already willing to recuse himself When the case was assigned to him and both sides were fine with him staying on

[@aaronbaird9444]

Incorrect. Whitney OFFERED to recuse, but both parties were ok with him. Whitney announced 12/2 that he is immediately moving into a reserve judge role, a semi-retirement, for judges. That is why the case was reassigned

[@markalbert9011]

@@johnhaas2523 He certainly did himself no favors by sitting on a case that he knew his rulings would be overturned regardless of how he ruled. Rule for 23XI and NASCAR gets the ruling thrown out on whatever the conflict of interest was. AND why was Kessler good with him sitting? Regardless of how he ruled the loser would ask for him to recuse himself. Why not just accept his recusal? I understand NASCAR's hope, but Kessler does nothing by chance. He clearly thought it benefited his case to do so.

[@Dupontman627]

Eckes is driving the car Chandler had in 2023 during his cut short contract (evil laugh intensifies)

[@zachwalentiny]

And both were kicked out of the TRD development program

[@GiveMeLibertyOrGiveMeDeath147]

​@@zachwalentinyChandler left trd for Kaulig on his own accord. TRD bought Chandler out to bring him back then his funding dried up. TRD wants him. Christian got booted because he couldn't win.

[@vidwatcher3001]

Id rather get paid to race trucks than pay to race xfinity.

[@Roger-u7p]

I rather race xfinity and make a name for my self by stretching the car some while trying to finish the the race!🏎️🏎️🏎️🏁🇧🇿

[@lovejoyb20]

"The charter agreement has already been signed for those charters"? Who signed the agreement? Stewart-Haas Racing? They don't exist. Haas Factory Team? The team was created with the knowledge they were running ONE chartered team. If the team that signed the charter agreement is the team tied to the individual charter, the Trackhouse charter is either a lease, or NASCAR is full of shit. Left out of the #1 selling diecast story is that they didn't even announce it until late October. It went to #1 in a little over a month.

[@JJj-sb5pz]

I didn't even think about that😮

[@johnhaas2523]

Stewart Haas racing exist until 11:59:59 on the 31st and Gene and Tony signed the charter deal so that they had charters to sell and charter for Haas factory team

[@GiveMeLibertyOrGiveMeDeath147]

SHR signed the charter agreement when they were a 4 car team. SHR then sold 3 of them. Then the season ended and SHR became Haas factory. You made this way too complicated for yourself

[@lovejoyb20]

@johnhaas2523 OK, you answered the rhetorical questions (because they're irrelevant). How about the actual issue? If SHR is the signee of the agreement, then based on NASCAR's retarded argument the Trackhouse charter is either leased from SHR, or the fact that SHR signed the charter agreement has nothing to do with the two other charters they sold. You can't concede that 23XI and FRM can run their own two charters (as court ordered) and argue they can't run the third charters because they "belong" to SHR. NASCAR is absolutely starting to show their desperation because they know damn well they're going to lose.

[@usleadershipareliars]

I like Chamdler, he just makes bad choices. He should still be at Kaulig either in Xfinity or rookie in cup. Frm is a good way for him to possibly get to cup, we'll see, I'm glad he's racing.

[@warphammer]

The Hooters scheme also might be the last one ever - or at least for now, so that is also a factor. For an antitrust trial that schedule is... Warp freakin' 10. Michael Jordan better watch out or he'll turn into a lizard like that Voyager episode. Ahem. Seriously, that's an incredible pace for what is usually a complex proceeding. It helps this one is less complext than most, but...

[@GrizzlyJ.Ranger]

I think the only reason that Lajoie car sold so many is because he flipped it !

[@casey6518]

Chandler would have better success in the family construction business than a racing career, moving every year to a new team is moving too often. Chandler should ask Sheldon Creed if he would like to come work in the construction business too since Sheldon changes teams yearly. You can't build success if change teams yearly. All collectibles & diecasts is just a total waste of money unless you own a business & planning to resale for a profit, only thing they good for at home is collecting dust. I stopped buying any collectibles such as NASCAR or any other Pro Sports teams in mid 90's.

[@JoshuaNazworth]

Hey can I be honest with you at BrakeHard at Matt the only reason Corey lajoie's car was in the top number 6 which is better than Chase Elliott is because the Hooters they you know I'm guessing they have a lawsuit against Hooters for not paying Chase Elliott on that sponsorship so that's why it was so low.? BrakeHard Matt.?

[@davehallock3656]

Nascar is going to get creamed. They think they have a strong position and they do not. Nascar would be smart to settle before discovery. If they don't they will lose their ass. Go ahead tell me I am wrong, I'm not Nascar is toast they just don;t know it yet!

[@NateGravy123-kp5ou]

Not sure about that. 23XL and FRM were able to demonstrate their teams would suffer damage with the possibility they might lose drivers or sponsors. That is all. This isn’t an admission they have a monopoly or actually have any momentum in the case.

[@joelcheek3494]

I disagree with you. It seems like the judge awarded the injunction because Reddick notified 23xi they were in default of his driving contract (another lawyer involved), Bubba notified the team he was going to look for another ride, with both driver's confronting 23xi and wanting to know what the plan was for them to drive in 2025 (you'd think smugg 23xi would have had all of that figured out BEFORE filing the lawsuit). Plus, Monster Energy notified 23xi they would sit on the sidelines until the team got chartered again, and Love's Travel Stop informed FRM something similar, according to Jayskis just today. It sounds to me like NASCAR is partially going along with the injunction for the sake of the drivers (it's product) and the sponsors (it's customers), and not because "they lost." 23xi and FRM are still on the losing end at this point.

[@NateGravy123-kp5ou]

@@joelcheek3494 you just expanded on my point. The drivers weren’t going anywhere. The majority of 23XL sponsor are very secure with MJ sand the Herbst family. NASCAR isn’t going along with it they are appealing this ruling.