Jeremy Mayfield Wins Court Injunction to Return To Racing
Throughout the accusations by NASCAR of violation of the sport's substance abuse policy and his subsequent suspension by the sanctioning body, Jeremy Mayfield has maintained his innocence. He has also fought every step along the way for the right to return to the track.
Mayfield won at least a part of his battle, receiving a temporary injunction from a judge that effectively lifted his suspension, at least for now. The end result is that Mayfield can return to racing immediately, just in time for the July 4 race weekend in Daytona.
The judge, Graham Mullen, ruled that there is a likelihood of a false positive in the Mayfield case. The NASCAR Sprint Cup driver has been arguing just that, claiming that a combination of a drug that he was taking for ADD and an allergy medication caused the false positive in a NASCAR random drug test.
NASCAR, however, reacted quickly after receiving the results of Mayfield's drug test. As soon as the primary and secondary samples ...
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