Jeremy Mayfield?

[Beckron]

I'm confused about the Nascar test I thought he was in Atlanta trying to sell his team when he got the call that he needed to be in Charlotte for the test. No?

[Elise]

He is a "tweeker" nothing more, nothing less. He just got caught again and wants to put the blame on someone else. He never wins anyway.!!!

I know alot of people dont like Kyle Busch, but I love him! He can be a whiner sometimes but he is one hell of a racer! Anyway, the other day they were asking different drivers what they thought of the whole thing, and most gave the politically correct statements, but Kyle summed it up this way "I dont care what Mayfield does, it doesnt affect me cause he is always in the back and I am in the front"!!!! Which is true! For Mayfield to make these wild outburst only proves what we have pretty much figured out, tweekers are paranoid and make crazy outburst! I aint saying Nascar doesnt want to control everything, but what the hell do they get out of going after a nobody like Mayfield?

[Elise]

Here is a link to the whole story on the 2nd test and the total B.S he tried to pull to get out of it.

http://www.scenedaily.com/news/articles ... onday.html

[Srotagtbs]

I used to really like NASCAR about 10-15 years ago and then when Dale Sr was died NASCAR lost it's appeal to me. It was not the fact that he died, but all the knee jerk reactions that came along. I understand the need for safety, but some of the actions they took like are ridiculous, like changing the cars. The Cars in the 90's were worked fine and like everything had it's flaws, but never at any point did the create a whole new breed of car as they did when Dale Sr died, when they started the Car of Tomorrow project. And why did it take Dale's death to start all this and not any other of the other drivers who died?

Any remember when Rusty Wallace flipped about 5 times at Daytona? I don't remember NASCAR running to change the the cars back then and I don't remember Rusty having any long lasting effects of that crash, except for the 5 Hour Energy drink and US Fidelis commerials. Here's the video by the way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE1-C-QCnlg

Another thing is the phantom cautions, when there is clearly no accident and no debris on the track, which I guess is for entertainment. When you watch a race, you watch the cars go around the track at high rates of speed, not at 50-60 MPH so you're favorite driver has a false hope of winning. Also, it's not like these drivers don't know what they are doing. They know the next time in the car could be their last, and if they can't accept that fact, they shouldn't be driving for their safety and everyone else's too.


As for the story at hand, I'd like to see NASCAR be wrong, but Jeremy Mayfield is acting like an ass during this. He keeps throwing people under the bus and making wild allegations about people. I don't see how this is good for either parties and I doubt we see Mayfield ever drive professionally unless it's overseas, but who would take him considering his baggage? Anyone remember how NASCAR handled Tim Richmond's death? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_NASCAR#The_death_of_Tim_Richmond Let's hope they don't have a relapse again

[Beckron]

I used to always watch Nascar on the weekends, now I don't even know when it's on most of the times. All of the drivers I liked are gone except Tony Stewart. I'm one of the ones that can't stand flounder, Kyle Busch. I don't know how he can see with those eyes pointing in different directions.

What ruined Nascar was these mile and a half boring race tracks. Give me N. Wilkesboro, Rockingham, and bring the Darlington Labor Day race back to the roots of it in the Carolinas, not in California. They have just lost their way. They need to remember that stock car racing came out of whiskey running. People like Mayfield would have been stars. lol It's all too GQ for me now.

[Elise]

Links, folks! They're required -- MaryS

http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2009/07 ... ral-court/

Boy, those meth-heads dont have very good memories.....Pretty good idea to record the conversations on Nascars part.

NASCAR contends Mayfield lied about test chronology
By The Associated Press
July 28, 2009
01:03 PM EDT

type size: + -CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- NASCAR accused Jeremy Mayfield of lying to a federal court about the chronology of a second random drug test, offering to provide an audio tape of the conversation in which Mayfield was told to submit a sample. The driver says the telephone call went to voicemail.

The accusation came Monday in court filings that ask U.S. District Court Judge Graham Mullen to lift the July 1 injunction he granted Mayfield so he could return to racing.


MayfieldNASCAR disputed the sworn testimony Mayfield provided to U.S. District Court last week, including the assertion that a July 6 request for a second drug test went to his voicemail at 1:18 p.m. He said he didn't get the message until about 40 minutes later, making it difficult for him to meet the two-hour deadline to report for testing.

NASCAR provided a transcript of the actual conversation between Mayfield and Regina Sweeney, an employee of Aegis Sciences Corp., which runs NASCAR's drug-testing program. NASCAR said it would provide the recording upon request.

"I'm calling on behalf of NASCAR who has requested that you take a drug test today within the next two hours ... and I was going to help find you a location that you could go to based upon where you are right now," Sweeney said in the transcript.

"Right, well I'm gonna have to -- let me talk to my attorney first. ... So, and I'll get back with you," Mayfield is quoted as replying.

According to Mayfield's affidavit from last week, he was in a meeting and did not receive the message until 2 p.m. and it was 2:44 p.m. when he was finally told which labortatory to go to -- making it impossible for him to meet the testing deadline.

"Mayfield appears to have completely "forgotten" that he had a live conversation with Ms. Sweeney ... in which she advised him he could go to a testing place ... the address of which Mayfield did not take down because he wanted to talk to his attorney first," the filing said.

NASCAR also accused Mayfield of lying when he told the court he was instructed to return to his home at 5 p.m., where he waited almost three hours for NASCAR representatives to collect a sample.

"This account is contradicted by Mayfield's counsel, who claimed that at 5:32 p.m., Mayfield was still driving around Concord, looking for the testing location," the filing said. NASCAR submitted e-mail exchanges between Mayfield attorney John Buric and its counsel to contradict Mayfield's claims.

Buric did not immediately return a request for comment.

Mayfield was suspended May 9 for failing a random drug test taken eight days earlier for what NASCAR has said was a positive test for methamphetamines. The driver sued, and Mullen lifted the suspension based on the argument that NASCAR's testing system is flawed.

NASCAR has asked Mullen to reverse the injunction based on new evidence -- the failed July 6 test, and sworn testimony from Mayfield's estranged stepmother that she witnessed him using meth at least 30 times through the years.

An appeals court last week issued a ruling that put Mayfield back under suspension, but the request to reverse the injunction is one of the unresolved legal challenges before Mullen.

NASCAR's filing Monday also contends that in addition to the eyewitness account from Lisa Mayfield, it has several other witnesses willing to testify about Mayfield's methamphetamine use if subpoenaed.

"Mayfield has apparently contacted at least one witness to convince the witness that despite her recollection, he never used drugs," the filing said.

[Srotagtbs]

"Right, well I'm gonna have to -- let me talk to my attorney first. ... So, and I'll get back with you," Mayfield is quoted as replying."Right, well I'm gonna have to -- let me talk to my attorney first. ... So, and I'll get back with you," Mayfield is quoted as replying.


Was Jeremy on Meth when he said this? I can just see him stuttering his words with a glazed look on his eyes

[Beckron]

So much for NASCAR's credible eyewitness. This wouldn't be this kind of mess if Bill Jr. were still around.

http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2009/08 ... de-home%2F


Jeremy Mayfield's Stepmother Arrested Outside Suspended Driver's Home
Posted Aug 17, 2009 2:05PM By Geoffrey Miller (RSS feed)

Filed Under: NASCAR Police Blotter, Sprint Cup
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Just when this Jeremy Mayfield saga seemed to be reaching a lull, a key witness on NASCAR's side decided to ratchet up the coverage again -- and not in a manner that's going to do the sanctioning body any good.

Lisa Mayfield, the stepmother of the driver suspended for allegedly testing positive for methamphetamines in May, was arrested Saturday night outside Jeremy's home on charges of public intoxication, alleged trespassing and simple assault among other charges, according to ESPN and other sources.

The arrest was confirmed by the Catawba County, N.C., police chief and certainly won't help the character part of her witness statements that NASCAR has planned to use extensively in its defense of Jeremy's suspension.

The details, per ESPN.com's David Newton:

The arrest was made at the home of Jeremy and Shana Mayfield. According to Shana Mayfield, she and her husband were on their way to Cherokee Speedway in Gaffney, S.C., for a dirt track race when they received a call from a couple that lives on their property.

Shana said the couple heard banging on the door and went to the house to investigate. She said by the time she and Jeremy arrived back at the house, Lisa Mayfield was in handcuffs.

At that point, Shana Mayfield claimed that Lisa Mayfield threatened to come back and "kill me."

"According to the officers she was pretty high," [Catwaba Police Chief Cecil] Cook said. "The officers took her to jail on public assistance ... to make sure she didn't cause problems to anybody or herself. The Mayfields came up [to the magistrate's office] and took charges out. She was arrested on those charges while in jail."

Shana said the simple assault charges were filed because Lisa kicked the wife of the couple and became physical with the couple's pregnant daughter. Cook said officers at the scene did not witness either confrontation.
Lisa Mayfield joined the spotlight of stepson Jeremy's case after NASCAR released witness testimony from her claiming to have seen Jeremy cook his own methamphetamines, as well as claiming that she saw Jeremy doing the drugs roughly 30 times since 1998 -- including a specific incident at the track in Darlington, S.C.

Jeremy Mayfield responded vehemently by denying her claims, accusing her of having a role in his father's death in 2007, claiming she has tried to extort money from him and claiming that she was an alcoholic that was only in it for the money.

Mayfield hasn't raced since being suspended by NASCAR ahead of the May race in Darlington, despite having an injunction temporarily lifted in July before more test results from NASCAR convinced a judge to rescind the injuction. Mayfield has since sold the assets from his self-owned race team.

Lisa Mayfield is due in court Sept. 14 for these charges -- a date that will hopefully be the next time we hear of this saga.

[Elise]

hmmm, maybe it runs in the family??

[Shutoutagain]

NASCAR would be interesting if half the field went clockwise and the other half went counterclockwise.