NASCAR insider Bob Pockrass has pushed an old piece of NASCAR history back into the public eye. In his tweet on X, he wrote about a comment made by Michael Jordan during his testimony in the ongoing antitrust case and how it triggered the NASCAR reporter to remind fans of a part of Jim France’s racing career that most people forgot.Pockrass referred to a piece he covered back in 1992. The article was titled “Interest grows in replica auto racing.” It focused on Legends cars, which were designed as small replicas of older 1930s NASCAR stock car racing vehicles. In the middle of that story, Pockrass wrote about Jim France, the son of NASCAR founder Bill France, who competed in Legends events in the early years of the series.Pockrass brought this up because of a line from Jordan’s testimony. While explaining that drivers are the ones who carry the physical risk in NASCAR stock car racing, Jordan said he had never seen Jim France get into a race car. That comment made Pockrass recall his old article. Bob Pockrass shared a clipping of an old article on X:"Michael Jordan testified that drivers are the ones who risk their lives and he hadn’t seen Jim France get in a race car. I chuckled b/c while certainly not big stock cars, I wrote about France racing Legends in 1994. He was first national champ in 1992 when Legends started.”The resurfaced information came as the courtroom was hearing major testimony from Jordan, Heather Gibbs, and others. Jordan explained that he refused to sign the 2025 Charter agreement because it was not a fair deal. He said the structure left teams without any meaningful protection since NASCAR could force a “take it or leave it” decision.Heather Gibbs told the court that she wrote a personal letter to NASCAR leaders, including Jim France, asking for permanent charters to protect teams. Evidence shown earlier in the trial indicated that France reacted angrily to the letter.Steve O’Donnell told fellow executives that France swore “every other sentence” while reading it. Later O’Donnell backed off that claim and said France did not swear, which led to questions about how accurate these conversations were.“I wrote that, but he didn’t swear”: Jim France’s reaction to Heather Gibbs’ letter, questioned in court in the NASCAR lawsuitNASCAR faced a major hurdle on day four of the antitrust lawsuit against 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports. During this portion of the trial, the court focused on how Jim France reacted when Heather Gibbs sent a personal letter to the France family during the 2025 charter negotiations.When questioned about this in court, O’Donnell distanced himself from his own message. He said, “I wrote that, but he didn’t swear.”Jeffrey Kessler immediately pressed him on why he would choose that language if France had not sworn at all. Kessler then asked,“If he wasn’t swearing, what made you conclude swearing would be appropriate?”O’Donnell replied, “I don’t know.”Kessler followed with, “Then how do you not know he wasn’t swearing if you can’t remember?”The exchange came shortly after Judge Bell warned NASCAR attorneys for violating court orders by bringing up unrelated business questions to FRM owner Bob Jenkins and revealing a text message from Jeff Dickerson. Earlier in the week 23XI Racing co-owner Denny Hamlin had called NASCAR a “monopoly” and said the governing body held all the power while asking teams to cut spending.