Kenny Wallace explains why Tony Stewart stepped away from the sport and why many team owners remain dissatisfied.

It was a day many in the NASCAR world thought might never come. The bitter, high-stakes legal war that pitted race teams against the very sanctioning body they compete under finally reached its conclusion.

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.