Former NASCAR driver Michael Annett has died at the age of 39, leaving the NASCAR community in shock and mourning

That was the on-the-record reaction from John Probst, the chief racing development officer at NASCAR and the defense counsel’s first witness after the plaintiffs — 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports — rested their case Wednesday morning in U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina in uptown Charlotte.

There’s nothing quite like the rush of NASCAR—the speed, the rivalries, the thunder of engines shaking the stands. But for all its heart-stopping excitement, the sport has also seen its share of heartbreak,

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