Here's an updating look at what we're gathering in the aftermath of Thursday's settlement between NASCAR and the two teams suing it.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The theme of family ties in motorsports was woven through Michael Jordan’s federal antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR, with witness after witness testifying to their emotional connections to the top motorsports series in the United States.

Two principles led to France's refusal to budge on permanent charters in the 2025 revenue-sharing agreement.

That was the on-the-record reaction from John Probst, the chief racing development officer at NASCAR and the defense counsel’s first witness after the plaintiffs — 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports — rested their case Wednesday morning in U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina in uptown Charlotte.

The plaintiffs in the NASCAR antitrust trial have rested their case, and now its NASCAR's turn to defend itself over accusations of being a monopoly and forcing racing teams into charter deals.

In text messages produced through discovery as part of the 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports v NASCAR antitrust lawsuit, the NASCAR Commissioner Steve Phelps expressed contempt and a lack of respect for Childress, who has been part of the sport since the 1960s.

NASCAR chairman and CEO Jim France was called as the final witness for the plaintiffs, 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports, in the antitrust lawsuit the teams filed against France and the sport he owns and operates.