No one should be surprised by NASCAR's drug policy being vague, unfair, out of date, and open ended with lots of wiggle room. That describes just about every rule NASCAR has written since 1949.
I'm still on the fence. I can't see NASCAR just picking on Mayfield for no reason but at the same time I can't see Mayfield putting up such a big fight if he is guilty.:dunno:
I'm still on the fence. I can't see NASCAR just picking on Mayfield for no reason but at the same time I can't see Mayfield putting up such a big fight if he is guilty.:dunno:
I could see Nascar doing this IF they honestly screwed up the first test and have now tried to cover that up. I don't think they set out to get Mayfield but once he fought the first positive I could see them throwing all the chips in to bust his butt over it.
If that is true they would have been better off coming clean, saying they screwed up and it was a false positive, then dropping anything they had on Mayfield. Now, they're in too deep and there is no turning back so they have to frame him or do whatever they have to do to make him look guilty so that they don't look like they dropped the ball on this.
I don't know that my theory is correct but I could see that scenario as to why they would fight Mayfield this hard.
I just read in an article that this wouldn't be the first time they've spiked someone's drug test. Twenty years ago they also falsified Tim Richmond's tests, per the NYT.