Kenny Wallace calls out NASCAR for opening up ‘Pandora’s Box’ amid lawsuit

With more revealed this week in the NASCAR lawsuit, Kenny Wallace is speaking, as he often does, about the news. This morning’s Coffee with Kenny touched on the recent lawsuit news as financial records were unsealed, among other documents.

Kenny Wallace is always talking about the latest happenings in NASCAR. He took the time this morning, amid his usual rants and ramblings, to address the charter system.

The NASCAR lawsuit has revealed more than anyone in the sport wanted to reveal. Wallace warned that Pandora’s Box had been opened.

“So yesterday evening, late, maybe after six o’clock in the evening, NASCAR opened up its own Pandora’s Box,” Wallace said with his coffee mug in hand. He then went into the details of the latest lawsuit news.

Kenny didn’t stop there. He went on to take the metaphor further, claiming that NASCAR didn’t open it with the lawsuit financials, but by allowing the charter system to happen.

“Now, NASCAR was ruling, and they were ruling hard,” Wallace said, comparing the sport to the Roman Empire. “And they opened up Pandora’s Box by giving these teams what they asked for. They gave them the charter system. And there’s that old saying, ‘Be careful, you give them an inch, they’ll take a mile.’ The rules were not in place properly at NASCAR for them to open this up and give them a charter. … NASCAR had good rules in place, and then they ruined it by opening up a charter system. When you give somebody an inch, they take a mile. Now, hopefully things will turn out for the better, but right now, this is not good. Because everybody in the industry does not like this.”

Is Kenny Wallace right about charters, NASCAR lawsuit?

During his career, Kenny Wallace raced under different rules. He was racing during the heyday of the sport. It was a different time, not just in NASCAR but in the world and the economy.

Is the NASCAR lawsuit good for the sport? Not in the moment, but it could be in the end. Kenny Wallace seems to believe that NASCAR has already opened up a Pandora’s Box with the charters. So, what can be done to fix it?

23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports are in this for the long haul. NASCAR and Jim France may face pressure to settle the lawsuit after this week’s rulings. The counterclaim by NASCAR against the teams and Curtis Polk was thrown out. Now, the sport’s financial records are all available to the public, more or less.

Kenny Wallace might be correct in that charters were a Pandora’s Box in a way. It did unleash a lot of unforeseen circumstances. Does that mean it was entirely a bad thing? This lawsuit and the financial records could be another box that has just opened, and we have yet to see the fallout from it. Perhaps we will look back in two years and see that this was what the sport needed all along.