Mayfield Suspension Talk

NASCAR suspends Sprint Cup driver under terms of drug policy

By Jim Utter - jutter@charlotteobserver.com
Saturday, May. 09, 2009
NASCAR has suspended a Sprint Cup driver under terms of its substance abuse policy - immediately and indefinitely - in advance of Saturday nightís race at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway, ThatsRacin.com and The Charlotte Observer have learned.

Sources said the driver, who has not been identified by officials, was found to have violated Sections 12-1 (actions detrimental to stock car racing) and 7-5 (violation of the NASCAR substance abuse policy) of the 2009 NASCAR rule book. The determination was based on findings at last weekendís race at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway.

NASCAR on Saturday declined to discuss the matter, saying that questions would be dealt with in a news conference at the South Carolina track on Saturday at 6 p.m.

Such a suspension would be the first under NASCARís drug policies for a driver at the top level, the Spring Cup Series.

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on July 10, 2009 at 1:12pm
Anyone who bought the team would get the #41's owners points. But since the #41 is currently 44th in owners points, it wouldn't do them any good. They certainly can't add the #41's points on to another cars current points, if that's what you were getting at.
Permalink Reply by Zippy on July 10, 2009 at 1:14pm
Yes that is what I was thinking. Thanks alan4s.
Permalink Reply by Charlie on July 11, 2009 at 10:01am
i wish somebody would throw him some bucks just to see him get out there and make it to the race track. nascar probably would fail him going through tech or something, but if he only gets one more race, then i would like to see it happen!

i'm no huge jeremy fan by any means, but he is definitely getting screwed whether it comes out that he passed/failed the test. jeremy might come out of this a winner on the courts side, but his career and everything else he had is gone over maybe a supposedly false positive test that nascar tried to turn into a big deal and that's the bad thing about all of this!
Permalink Reply by TOG on July 11, 2009 at 2:06pm
nah, it would be too obvious if they failed him in Tech Inspection. He would pass Tech with flying colors.
Permalink Reply by gg91 on July 11, 2009 at 11:42am
At the end of the day, does anybody really "give a shit"?
Permalink Reply by alan4s on July 11, 2009 at 1:35pm
NASCAR has the money to waste. They wanted to make a statement, they wanted to show they are tough on drugs, so as soon as a driver popped up with suspicious results, they jumped all over him.

There's a very good chance this was a false positive, but NASCAR is trying to bully Mayfield into going away. The refuse to admit that there's even the slightest chance they made a mistake.

NASCAR has much more to lose on this than Mayfield does. He's already broke and out of a job now, so he's got nothing to lose by fighting this. And if he's truly innocent, as he claims, he's going to be living the rest of his life very comfortably - probably not racing in NASCAR, but he'll get a fat settlement.
Permalink Reply by TOG on July 11, 2009 at 2:12pm
Good points , Alan.

also,

If you are innocent, you fight til the end.
Permalink Reply by vak7 on July 11, 2009 at 2:27pm
Or if you're a druggie and trying to convince folks you're not.... you'll still fight to the end. Fact is, we will never know the truth. We can all surmise but that's about it. There's usually a shred of truth to both sides of an argument. Building a case becomes creative and after a while, the facts get obscured with the web they each wove until even the principal's can't remember which is fact or fiction.
Permalink Reply by Dave-O on July 13, 2009 at 11:02pm
This test comes back negative, we'll know. Then we'll watch NASCAR take it on the chin, and I'm looking forward to that.
Permalink Reply by dkam7 on July 11, 2009 at 4:28pm
agreed and I think JM will fight till the end. I hope he wins.
Permalink Reply by Dave-O on July 13, 2009 at 11:04pm
There's an issue of punitative damages. The way case law has gone in that arena, anything is possible.
Permalink Reply by alan4s on July 14, 2009 at 10:01am
Dude, turn off CSI. NASCAR cannot subpoena records from the phone company to find out where Mayfield was. First, it's none of thier business where he was. Second, that's a fundamental privacy issue. Third, phone companies don't record everyones location for every minute of every day and save those records forever.

This is not a criminal case. Mayfield has not been accused of breaking any law. Even if he were, it would have to be a case of iminent danger, or seriously severe criminal actions to invade someones privacy like that. It's just a freaking race car driver.

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