News about Michael McDowell

Two NASCAR teams - one of them owned by Michael Jordan - filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the stock car series and chairman Jim France on Wednesday, claiming the new charter system limits competition by unfairly binding teams to the series, its tracks and its suppliers. 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports filed suit in the Western District of North Carolina in Charlotte after two years of contentious negotiations between the privately owned National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing and the 15 charter-holding organizations in the series' top Cup Series. 'The France family and NASCAR are monopolistic bullies,' the teams said in the lawsuit, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. 'And bullies will continue to impose their will to hurt others until their targets stand up and refuse to be victims. That moment has now arrived.'

A pair of brothers from south west Dublin are assisting with the creation of Ireland's most feared criminal company, The Kinahans, as the city's most prominent criminal firm. The brothers, whose band members are referred to as 'The Family,' are a close group of friends who are now trying to establish their own links with Mexican drug cartels. They are expected to earn around £8 million a month from their illicit trade, given the sheer number of narcotics smuggled into the country. Gardai confiscated enough cocaine last year to provide every man, woman, and child in the state with a wrap worth £40.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr, a NASCAR racer, survived a frightening crash at Charlotte Motor Speedway after it caught fire during the race. During the 96th lap of the championship, Stenhouse Jr. was compelled to turn around on the side of the track after the broadcast revealed fires shooting up from underneath his car. After several minutes, he nonchalantly jumped out of the car as if nothing was happening, before emergency personnel were seen rushing toward his car to put out the fires.