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.
NASCAR 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 … Details
You know folks, the results that came out of Sunday’s race at Indianapolis got me thinking, so I looked back at the other 15 previous races. What’s interesting is out of the 16 races run there, 14 of them have been won by champions. The only two races not won by champions were won by Ricky Rudd and Kevin Harvick. That’s pretty impressive.
To take that a step further, seven times the winner of the Brickyard race has gone on to win the Sprint Cup championship. I think it’s the importance and stature that race has in our sport now. Drivers will tell you that next to the Daytona 500, racing at the Brickyard every summer is our second-biggest race of the year.
I think that’s why …Â Details
INDIANAPOLIS — Juan Montoya’s loss was Jimmie Johnson’s gain Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Capitalizing on a pit-road speeding penalty to the dominant car of Montoya — and on the outside lane on a restart with 24 laps left — Johnson held off teammate and pole-sitter Mark Martin to win his second consecutive Allstate 400 at the Brickyard and his third in the past four years.
Johnson staved off a last-ditched challenge from Martin through the first two corners at the 2.5-mile track and streaked across the yard of brick — the unique finish line at the Brickyard … Details
INDIANAPOLIS — Juan Pablo Montoya proved just as adept Sunday at taming Indianapolis Motor Speedway without any of the technological wizardry he had in conquering the track nine years ago.
But there’s one Indy-car gizmo he might have liked in the cockpit of his No. 42 Chevrolet: a pit road speed limiter.
Busted for being too fast on pit road before making his final stop, Montoya settled for 11th after leading 116 of the first 124 laps in a bid to become the first driver to …Â Details