NASCAR has asked a judge to throw out a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by a Georgia man who claims that NASCAR rebuffed his efforts to launch programs and a race team to help with NASCAR's diversity efforts.
The federal lawsuit, with claims of damages of $500 million apiece for a variety of discrimination allegations, was moved from New York to North Carolina since its filing last September. Diversity Motorsports Racing owner Terrance Cox, who filed the lawsuit, has dismissed the race teams from the suit, leaving NASCAR as the sole defendant.
Cox alleges that the lack of NASCAR encouraging corporate sponsors to support an African-American team is an "almost insurmountable obstacle to the integration of NASCAR" and that "NASCAR has engaged in unlawful intentional racial discrimination by refusing to contract with Plaintiffs in order that an African American owned racing team could be sanction[ed] for its various Cup Series.