The issue actually at the forefront of the Mayfield drug test administered by NASCAR and purported by them to be a positive test for meth is that NASCAR has developed a 'drug policy' that rivals their rulebook. Secretive, unavailable to the public, and hard to believe or understand without information as to what's actually in it. One suspects NASCAR doesn't even know which drugs are on the forbidden list. You may recall that NASCAR was reluctant to implement drug testing and only did so at the outcry of fans and media after several minor drivers were quietly booted from the series after being proven to have used drugs. Shane Hmiel and Tyler Walker were the more well-known culprits; a few crewmembers this season have also been found to have been using drugs as well.
NASCAR is probably shocked (shocked!!) that their credibility is again being questioned. It's almost funny--they really don't realize that a vast majority of fans take their statements with the proverbial grain of salt. How can you possibly be naive enough to believe a governing body that could easily go into business full time selling conspiracy theories? How can you trust and believe NASCAR is on the up and up when you know that, a couple of years ago, their Chairman Brian France was heading home one night at Daytona to his condo, driving his Lexus, when he sideswiped two cars (was followed by a witness who got his tag number), ran the Lexus into a pole, then managed to drive it into his gated community where, a good half hour or so later, police showed up and apparently believed his statement that he spilled a soda in his car was the reason for all the carnage. Oh, what--no DUI test? Hmmmm....
I am 1000% for drug testing in sports, especially racing. But, once again NASCAR has managed to subfuge what's right and should be done with what they want to control, cover and hide. It's all so very simple. They need to issue a bonafide list of prohibited substances. If, as Jeremy Mayfield maintains, he was taking something like Claritin-D (a major NASCAR sponsor whose logos appear on Carl Edwards' #99 car during the season) along with other allergy medicines, and that showed a positive test for meth, then either the lab NASCAR is using (hopefully not the Wylie-Coyote owned ACME testing lab) is not up to par or Jeremy is lying. Which just does not wash with racefans who have followed the sport and have a good sense of the persona of the driver involved.
Mayfield got into hot water a couple of years back when he revealed his then car owner Ray Evernham was dating young female Busch-driver, Erin Crocker. Mayfield's main fault appears to be that he is too blunt and honest and does not take BS well. NASCAR appears to be targeting Mayfield, as they did Carl Long back in May 2009. And then theyy wonder why fans don't believe every word that comes out of NASCAR's headquarters is the gospel truth....
