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JENSEN: Truth Or Consequences
Jeremy Mayfield is either the smartest man in NASCAR or the dumbest...
Tom Jensen  |  Posted May 17, 2009   Charlotte, NC
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Jeremy Mayfield is either the smartest man in NASCAR or the dumbest. I guess we’ll find out which soon enough.

Mayfield, who a week ago was suspended indefinitely by NASCAR for failing a drug test, showed up at Lowe’s Motor Speedway for Saturday’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, a move guaranteed to infuriate NASCAR officials given that was a direct contradiction to the whole notion of suspension. Mayfield apparently made it into the infield at LMS by purchasing a wrist band from the track, which anyone can do.

Before he was asked to leave the track by NASCAR, Mayfield met with several reporters, including ESPN.com’s Marty Smith and Jenna Fryer of the Associated Press.

Among the claims Mayfield made to reporters were that NASCAR never told him what the drug he tested positive was, he never was told by Sprint Cup Series Director John Darby why he was suspended and he was told by Dr. David Black that Claritin could have triggered the positive test results. All those claims were roundly denied by NASCAR officials. Earlier in the week, Black, who runs NASCAR’s drug-testing policy, said there was no way Mayfield’s positive test could have been caused by over-the-counter or prescription drugs.

Mayfield went as far as to say he will not enter NASCAR’s drug rehab program because he doesn’t take illegal drugs. “I'm not going to rehabilitation,” Mayfield told the Associated Press. “Why would I?”

Friday at LMS, NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France was emphatic that Mayfield’s failed test was the result of a “serious” drug infraction. In fact, France used the word “serious” 11 times in explaining the penalty and intimated that “serious” referred to one of two categories of drugs, performance-enhancing ones or recreational drugs. Thus, France left an unmistakable impression that Mayfield was busted for either something recreational or performance-enhancing.

Mayfield has been as vehement in his denials of NASCAR’s claims as NASCAR has been in the things Mayfield has said.

So who’s right here?

I wish I could tell you, but I don’t know and neither do you.


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