NASCAR files countersuit against suspended Mayfield, denies all claims
By Dan Gelston, Gaea News NetworkFriday, June 5, 2009
NASCAR countersues against suspended Mayfield
LONG POND, Pa. — NASCAR has filed a countersuit in federal court against driver Jeremy Mayfield and denied each of the suspended driver’s arguments why his failed drug test should be overturned.
NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston, speaking Friday from Pocono Raceway, says the countersuit was filed against Mayfield for willfully violating NASCAR’s substance abuse policy, breach of contract, and defrauding NASCAR and its competitors of earnings.
Among the claims of the lawsuit are that Mayfield knowingly participated in NASCAR competition using a combination of drugs in violation of the substance abuse policy and violated his contracts with NASCAR and the standards of care he owed fellow drivers and spectators.
Mayfield was suspended May 9 for failing a random drug test conducted eight days earlier at Richmond International Raceway.
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