May 19 2009
Nascar vs. Jeremy Mayfield in drug war
I am sure that if you follow Nascar at all you have heard about Nascar driver Jeremy Mayfield being suspended indefinitely by Nascar for failing a drug test.. What I am curious about is who do you believe between the the two, Nascar or Jeremy Mayfield.
First you have Jeremy Mayfield, he just started his own Nascar team this year and made the Daytona 500 but since then has struggled to make races. He was tested at the Richmond race and later the test came back positive for a banned substance. He told Nascar to test his B sample and that also came back positive. So the next race at Darlington they suspended him indefinitely.
He says that he had bad allergies at Richmond and took Claritin-D and it reacted with a prescription drug that he has been taking. He refused to say what the drug is however. Nascar’s medical officer says there is no way the drugs Mayfield mentions can mix together in your system and create a banned substance.
He also says Nascar has never told him what drug was in his system that made him fail the test. Nascar says Mayfield was told on the separate occasions what the drug was by their medical officer who does the tests.
I find it hard to believe that Nascar wouldn’t inform someone of what drug was in their system if they failed a test. It just doesn’t make sense with all that Nascar has to lose from a lawsuit which Mayfield has said is a possibility if his suspension isn’t lifted.
In my opinion I just cant see Nascar suspending someone for a failed drug test unless they are absolutely sure of it. Like I said they have to much to lose if it were to blow up in their faces. I do think that they need to say what drug was found in Mayfield’s system that triggered the positive test. That doesn’t look good on their part to keep the drug a secret.
