23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports have been busy over the last two weeks filing court motions to convince various sports leagues to comply with previously issued subpoenas for the teams' ongoing lawsuit against NASCAR. Among these was a motion filed in the US District Court of Colorado on April 7th to compel Liberty Media -- which owns Formula 1 -- to comply with a subpoena for documents that could be useful in their ongoing legal bid to challenge the France family's hold over NASCAR.
The teams are asking for financial information from the F1 ownership group as they gather examples of how other series operate to help them in their lawsuit against NASCAR, aiming to prove that the France family has been operating it as an unlawful monopoly and violating antitrust laws. This is commonly referred to as the 'yardstick method' in legal circles, used to prove economic damages in suits of this nature.
