July 18th, 2009 
Journo The Cup cars are off this weekend, but the news is still buzzing. On Wednesday NASCAR said in a court filing suspended driver Jeremy Mayfield again failed a drug test given by the sanctioning body. Included in the filing was an affadavit from Mayfield’s stepmother claiming she had seen the driver use methamphetamine at least 30 times over seven years. Mayfield again denied using the drug and accused NASCAR of “spiking” the test. In other news Richard Childress Racing said this week that driver Kevin Harvick and sponsor Shell/Pennzoil would be returning to the team in 2010 despite reports Harvick had asked to be released from his contract. And finally Max Jones, co-owner of Yates Racing said this week despite rumors their contract with Paul Menard runs through 2011 and he hoped to continue the alliance with Hall of Fame Racing next season. This is the NASCAR week that was July 12 to 18, 2009.
Former Roush Fenway Car Chief Jason Myers talks about his battle with depression
Beyond injunctions, Jeremy Mayfield-NASCAR case won’t be decided until next summer
McGriff bids for a return to racing at age 81
Allgaier’s career path is fast but not reckless
Pride of NASCAR: Fred Lorenzen (video)
NASCAR Court Filing 7/15/09 (PDF)
Vintage Insiders
Kyle Busch an Anomaly? Not so fast.
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This Mayfield stuff is amazing. Now he says a second test, an hour later, was clean. Did NASCAR spike the first test? Would YOU put it past them? I wouldn’t. Mayfield knows whether he does meth. I don’t see why he’d fight this so hard if he knew he was a meth head.
There’s far more to this than meets the eye, I think.
Doug, I agree, there’s more than meets the eye.
But when your eyes’ settle on the FDA’s search function it turns up a butt load of warnings and other not so nice things issued to LabCorp.
Not to mention a multi-million dollar lawsuit they were partially responsible for.
Mayfield “says” while producing no hard copy evidence? NASCAR breaking the chain of evidence on a drug sample and facing massive civil and possible criminal ramifications? Mayfield couldn’t be in denial or fall into the “methinks the lady doth protest too much” category, huh?
Please re-examine your post and thought process.
Thank you, John. Could Mayfield be in denial? Of course he could. The whole point of my post was to say that I don’t have the foggiest. And I don’t. It’s great drama, though, especially with the stepmother jumping in. They pay people in Hollywood big bucks to come up with this stuff, but NASCAR gets it for free! Well, not really – they’re paying lawyers, not screenwriters…