23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports will be racing as open teams because they were denied a temporary restraining order which would've kept NASCAR from revoking their chartered status.

“Not a chance,” Hamlin said. And the potential of having to race open the remainder of this season, if it comes down to it? “December 1 is all that matters. That’s all that matters.”

The two teams’ charters were effectively revoked in June months after they filed an antitrust lawsuit claiming the NASCAR charter system was anti-competitive and they were monopolistic in their busin...