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CUP: Mayfield Fails Drug Test
NASCAR has suspended Jeremy Mayfield for failing a drug test at Richmond International Raceway...
Tom Jensen  |  Posted May 09, 2009   Richmond, VA
An attorney for Jeremy Mayfield states that the driver is not interested in pursuing an injunction to get back on the race track. (Photo: LAT Photographic)

NASCAR has suspended Jeremy Mayfield for failing a drug test. Also suspended were Tony Martin, a crewman on the No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Sprint Cup car, and Ben Williams, a crewman on the No. 16 Roush Fenway Racing NASCAR Nationwide Series team.

All three have been suspended indefinitely. Mayfield is the first NASCAR Sprint Cup driver to be suspended under the sanctioning body’s new drug policy.

Mayfield and the others were suspended for violating sections 12-1 (actions detrimental to stock-car racing) and 7-5 (violation of substance-abuse policy), according to NASCAR officials at Darlington Raceway. Specifics of the drugs involved were not disclosed.

NASCAR Vice President of Corporate Communications Jim Hunter said NASCAR received the test results today at noon.

Mayfield is in the first year as owner/driver of the No. 41 Mayfield Motorsports Toyota. In 433 career starts, the Owensboro, Ky., native has amassed five victories, 48 top-five and 96 top-10 finishes. In his career, Mayfield has earned $21.4 million.

This season with his own team, Mayfield has qualified for five of the first 11 races, with a best finish of 32nd at Talladega. He failed to qualify for tonight’s Southern 500 Presented by GoDaddy.com at Darlington Raceway.

Ironically, Mayfield just appeared in a newly released music video by the band Saving Abel, a video that chronicled the struggles of an underfunded race-car driver. The video is for the song “Drowning (Face Down).”

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The official release from NASCAR...

Driver, Two Crew Members Suspended Due To Violation Of NASCAR Substance Abuse Policy

Jeremy Mayfield, driver of the No. 41 car in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Tony Martin, a licensed crew member with the No. 34 team in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and Ben Williams, a licensed crew member with the No. 16 team in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, have been indefinitely suspended from NASCAR for violating the sanctioning body’s substance abuse policy.

All three were 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.

SPEEDtv.com will have much more on this story tonight.

Tom Jensen is the Editor in Chief for SPEEDtv.com, the former Executive Editor of NASCAR Scene and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com. He is the author of “Cheating: The Bad Things Good NASCAR Nextel Cup Racers Do In Pursuit of SPEED,” and has appeared on television and radio shows to discuss NASCAR racing. Jensen is the past President of the National Motorsports Press Association. Jensen is the 1997 National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year and has won numerous national and state awards for news reporting, columns and feature writing. The Answer Man is back at SPEEDtv.com. Tom Jensen answers your questions during every race week and looks forward to hearing from you - please e-mail it to



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