XI Racing team owners have hit back at NASCAR after the sport filed a countersuit against them and Front Row Motorsports.

Curtis Polk was singled out in NASCAR’s countersuit as the mastermind for a near mutiny by the race teams over revenue sharing.

Long before the battle over the charter system led to the antitrust lawsuit now engulfing NASCAR, its executives found Michael Jordan and his small group of advisers a beneficial resource in discussing growth for the top racing series in the United States.