Let see here hey gets his injunction at what 430 PM Wedensday night. Even if they had the car in the hauler not very likely since they would have to prep the car for Daytona you know the Important crap like Rear End Tranny and ENGINE. Say they get on the road to Daytona at Midnight that would be Pushing it. If you are using a single driver YOU CAN NOT MAKE IT within the DOT REGULATIONS it takes 13 HOURS of driving to get to Daytona without a single stop a Driver has to take a 10 hour break after 11. He would have needed a TEAM of 2 drivers to get there on time. Nascar knew he could not get there on time.

GTurgidson - 03 July 2009 04:04 PM

Finally, the judge said that more harm would be done to Mayfield with the suspension than with NASCAR would incur with the testing process being ruled flawed. I think that with the two car owners who said they wouldn't put him in the car because of his "suspected" use, they have given Mayfield all the ammunition he needs to win this case.

Guess why Mayfield had to start a team with 1 month before the Daytona 500? Because nobody wanted to hire him then. Nobody has wanted to hire him since the #36 car folded two years ago. It's not as though teams were lined up to hire Mayfield before this.

GTurgidson - 03 July 2009 04:04 PM

And this Ramsey Poston guy is the biggest idiot of them all. How could anyone expect Mayfield to field a car this weekend? What a bufoon!

Poston expected Mayfield to field a car this weekend because Mayfield's reason for getting an injunction to have the suspension lifted for Daytona is because there would be irreversible harm if he were not allowed to compete at Daytona. I would think if there were such irreversible harm, Mayfield would've had his team ready to come down. I guess Mayfield just exaggerated his situation for the injunction. Wonder how a federal judge feels about that...

ironeagle2006 - 03 July 2009 05:33 PM

Let see here hey gets his injunction at what 430 PM Wedensday night. Even if they had the car in the hauler not very likely since they would have to prep the car for Daytona you know the Important crap like Rear End Tranny and ENGINE. Say they get on the road to Daytona at Midnight that would be Pushing it. If you are using a single driver YOU CAN NOT MAKE IT within the DOT REGULATIONS it takes 13 HOURS of driving to get to Daytona without a single stop a Driver has to take a 10 hour break after 11. He would have needed a TEAM of 2 drivers to get there on time. Nascar knew he could not get there on time.

No one told him to wait until he had the signed injunction in his hand - he should have had the hauler on the way to Daytona, been parked outside the gate, and been the first one into the track...and had he lost, they could have turned around. That car could have been prepped at any time in the last month. And so what if he would have needed 2 CDL drivers - he could have hired an unemployed driver on a per diem basis.

Even if that were impossible, it doesn't take 13 hours to get his body down to Daytona even without his team. They have airplanes now and everything.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news;_ylt=Avftn2zt2dDrivJ0iZV5AZvmA61_?slug=ap-nascar-daytona-mayfield&prov=ap&type=lgns

Contrary to the reports that Mayfield was lined up for the #64 this weekend, Larry Gunselman said he hadn't had any direct conversation with Mayfield about him replacing Mike Wallace.

Yeah, let's beat on him for a few pages for that. The nerve of that idiot!

I'm not a fan of this guy, but this is ridiculous. The amateur lawyers got it wrong ... all of it. I'm a layman, but my gut is telling me that NASCAR is in trouble here.

I would assume that the longer egg is on one's face, the more difficult it is to remove. Perhaps that should be considered before making any more absolute proclamations.

It's kind of fun though...plus even experts in the field of sports litigation disagreed - it's an inexact science, and when you only have partion pleadings to go by, it's even more inexact.

It's not like Mayfield reads these boards and will have his feelings hurt. It's harmless enough either way. And no different than the people who are either for or against Kyle Busch on any handful of given topics.

It's a discussion board, we're discussing. There are other topics to read if you have no interest....

Brian France didn't really say NASCAR has the best drug policy in professional sports did he? He really needs to keep his mouth closed because every time he opens it he shows how he got where he is and it isn't brains.

I agree with the decision. The drug testing mania in sports is out of control. There are a myriad of drug interactions that can cause a "positive" test, which is exactly what happened with Mayfield and I applaud him for not laying down to NASCAR and say "HA HA" to NASCAR for playing the PR game by starting the "toughest drug testing policy in sports" in the first place.

TeamRMP - 03 July 2009 05:59 PM

Brian France didn't really say NASCAR has the best drug policy in professional sports did he? He really needs to keep his mouth closed because every time he opens it he shows how he got where he is and it isn't brains.

Kind of, but not exactly, it reads a little less crazy than coming out and saying just that - LOL

http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/headlines/cup/07/03/bfrance.mayfield.drugpolicy.reaction.ap/index.html

I'm glad you're having a good time.

I have no doubt you and others will continue this discussion. What I posted was one of my few contributions to said discussion. That is all ... do carry on.

As an aside, how much money do you suppose is involved in the entry, complete preparation, transportation and at-track operation of a lower-level go or go-home Cup car? Maybe the court date and the decision came too late. Maybe Mr. Mayfail and his lawyer will point to his non-arrival at Daytona in the course of the civil litigation. Maybe, maybe, maybe ...

Making declarations about what he should have done is easy.