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CUP: NASCAR - Independent Lab Verified Mayfield Tests
Written by: Bob Pockrass
SceneDaily.com   http://www.scenedaily.com
07/01/2009
Charlotte, NC
 
NASCAR suspended Jeremy Mayfield for failing a drug test. (PHOTO: LAT Photographic) ยป More Photos

In a brief filed in U.S. District Court on Monday night, NASCAR contends that a test of Jeremy Mayfield’s urine samples at a second laboratory proved that the suspended owner/driver had an illegal drug in his system.

Mayfield and NASCAR are scheduled to be in U.S. District Court in Charlotte on Wednesday for the hearing on Mayfield's request for an injunction seeking to stop the sanctioning body from suspending him until the driver's suit can be heard by the court. NASCAR filed its brief Monday night in response to Mayfield’s brief in support of the injunction request filed Thursday.

Mayfield has argued that his May 1 test produced a false positive reading for methamphetamines, according to court documents. He contends the findings resulted from a combination of prescription drug Adderall, which is used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and over-the-counter Claritin-D allergy medicine. NASCAR, which has not named the illegal drug it says Mayfield used, has asserted that could not
be the case.

NASCAR states in its filing Monday that the prescription for Adderall that Mayfield supplied to NASCAR did not come from his primary physician but from the “Vitality Anti-Aging Center & Medical Spa.”

In its filing Monday, NASCAR indicated that it has tested Mayfield’s specimen samples by a lab independent of Aegis Laboratories, which, according to documents filed with the court, has a three-year contract to administer the NASCAR drug-testing program. NASCAR states in its brief that it sent the untested portion of the A and B samples to Medtox Laboratories in St. Paul, Minn.

“Medtox … confirmed the presence of [drug name redacted] in both Mayfield’s A and B samples,” NASCAR states in its brief.

Mayfield’s experts, in earlier filings, state that because seals were broken on the A and B samples for the original tests done by Aegis, that the results are compromised. NASCAR disputes that argument in its filings.


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