dpkimmel2001
Team Owner
For anyone that still follows the ongoing saga of Jeremy Mayfield..... Here's a recent interview from captainthunderracing.com that I hadn't seen mentioned before.
Daytona Beach, FL - During a two-part 90-minute unedited and uncensored interview with Captain Thunder on the weekly radio show "TWISTED METAL with Captain Thunder", Jeremy Mayfield opened up about his lawsuit with NASCAR, his battles with Brian France, Ray Evernham's affair with Erin Crocker, drug use in NASCAR, and much more. Mayfield makes numerous accusations regarding France's management of NASCAR, including the black flag that was allegedly thrown on Mayfield during the 2006 Brickyard 400 when France was supposedly drunk on scotch. Mayfield also reveals who made the "Where Is Ray?" t-shirt that floated around the NASCAR garage while Evernham was dating Crocker.
MAYFIELD: Man it seems like yesterday even though it's been so long. But first of all, you said it right. There has been so many changes to their policy and the way they do things and they're testing procedure and everything since then, on account of that, you know, because of what happened. That alone should tell the world you know what there was definitely flaws within the system itself. You know, it is kind of like you said, it basically all started out that I got a call on Thursday afternoon after I tested and they said, I tested positive for amphetamines. I told Dr. Black the Sunday before that that I was sure I would because I was taking Adderall and had taken Claritin-D because of my allergies.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: How did you know that those two things, mixed together would give you a positive and how did you know the results would show as an amphetamine?
MAYFIELD: I didn't until the MRO called me. Here's what happened. I tested on a Friday at Richmond, raced Saturday night at Richmond, and talked to Dr. Black on Sunday, and I explained to him what I was taking because that's what they told us to do. Before the season started we were at Daytona and had a little meeting, this that and the other, and they said if you are taking anything just let us know whenever you are tested. So, I was doing what I thought was right at the time. He immediately said then on that Sunday that a person my age should not be taking Adderall and pretty much went off on me saying that it looked like I was trying to get stimulated. And, he's saying this on Sunday night before he had even tested anything.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: So, the doctor references that you are too old to be taking adderall - what does that have to do with anything? What does Adderall have to do with age?
MAYFIELD: Exactly, and this was Sunday! And that's the whole point of this thing. He's not a doctor, he's not even physician, he's a toxicologist. His exact words, a person your age should not be taking Adderall and he pretty much acted like he was pissed about it.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: What did he mean by the stimulated comment, did he mean you were taking them to cover up something?
MAYFIELD: No, I guess just getting stimulated like getting jacked up or something, but Adderall for someone with ADD calms them down, it does not speed them up. So anyway that was Sunday and he's telling me this stuff, and I said well I guess I got a big problem then because I take Claritin-D which I have taken forever. And, it's been on my profile with their physicians and their medical staff. I've been taking Claritin-D forever. So, I said - I was also taken Claritin-D I just want to let you know because that's what they told us to do. That's when he went off on me, telling me that I shouldn't be doing this, and that now it looks like I was trying to get stimulated by taking both of those. Whatever that means.
So, I didn't hear anything for the rest of the week - until Thursday. Then I get a call from another guy who is with MRO while I'm on my way to Darlington. Another racetrack, going back to the track again, and he says hey Jeremy, you tested positive for amphetamines, blah blah blah. Is there a reason why you tested positive? I told Dr. Black on Sunday that basically I was taking Adderall and Claritin-D, and I guess that would be why. So he says okay no problem, just have your physician send me your medical history and your prescription history and we'll turn the test into a negative test. So I called my doctor. She sent all the information they needed. And, I'm on my way to Darlington thinking its over...done.
I get up Friday morning, practice my car, try to qualify, but we obviously missed the race because of the point situation. But, there again - back at the racetrack again, no problems. We came home Friday night, we didn't stay (at the track) because we missed the race. Then, I get a call Saturday morning from John Darby. He says, "Jeremy you tested positive, were suspending you indefinitely from NASCAR and the only thing you can do is get a hold of Dr. Black, he is your biggest ally to get you back in."
I was stunned and shocked. I tried all day to call Dr. Black, and when I finally got a hold of Dr. Black that afternoon I asked him what do I have to do to get reistated? I don't know what the hell is going on what's happening or whats happening. So, he said let me put it to you this way. The quicker we can get you reinstated will be determined by how you handle the press conference this afternoon. I said what press conference?
He says, "Oh yeah, they are having a press conference at six o'clock announcing that you tested positive. So I said okay, so basically what you're telling me is how I handle it through the media...
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Are they trying to put words in your mouth?
MAYFIELD: Oh, yeah, because that's what they've always done. So basically, however I handle the press conference when I get interviewed afterwards is how quick I'm going to be reinstated. I asked him, is that what you're saying Dr. Black? And, he says well unfortunately yes.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: So now you have to play the game?
MAYFIELD: Yeah, and now we have to play the game and Jeremy's the scape goat here, and that's when I'm like - I'm not going to do it.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: So now you have big heat, why didn't you try to fix it?
MAYFIELD: Let me ask you this - why would I? Here's what happened, I did everything they asked me to do that Thursday and everything was fine. I get a call on Saturday boom, you've been suspended, it's over, done, your outta here! I mean, I didn't do anything wrong. Basically what I'm saying is, I felt like that as long as I've been in the sport I have not caused any trouble whatsoever - the least they could do was talk to me and say look Jeremy we got a problem you should have told us you were taking Adderall, or you should have did this or did that. I didn't even get an explanation for nothing. It was just boom it's over.
That's not the way they handle it in the NFL or MLB, other professional sports don't handle things this way, and that's not right.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Had you said - I'll go to rehab and do whatever you want me to do, do you think they would have let you back in, or did you feel that the call you got was the end?
MAYFIELD: I was going to have to do some type of rehab deal, but here's what's funny. A couple of days had gone by, and Dr. Black is calling - "Jeremy we need you to sign this paper saying that you are guilty so we can start this reinstatement process."
Well, I didn't call him back, because I wasn't sure what I was going to do at the time. Well, two or three days went by, and a lady from his office calls and says, "Jeremy look, I think we've got this worked out. You're probably not going to even have to go anywhere. You can just stay at your house. Let somebody come out and look at you several times, and get tested some more times." And I'm sitting here thinking, I don't have a problem. I am not a drug head. I don't do drugs. And I'm sitting here listening to all this stuff, and now they're talking about rehabs and all of this other stuff - I mean, what would you do?
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Did a lie detector test come in to play at all?
MAYFIELD: I don't know, it could, we've offered it.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Why wouldn't you just do it on your own and throw it to the media?
MAYFIELD: I said I would do it if Brian France would do it.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: You had an independent lab tests you after NASCAR tested you, and the test they gave you was positive for methamphetamine and the taste you took later was negative for methamphetamine, and that's when you said you thought they were spiking your test right?
MAYFIELD: That's exactly what they did. The second test was (spiked) beyond a shadow of a doubt. 20 minutes later I went straight to the hospital with Lab Corp. I mean, everyone's heard of Lab Corp, a very credible lab. It's probably the best test I've ever had, it's the most professional one I've ever had done - and it was negative. We even had them retest it again and lower the levels to make sure that Dr. Black and Aegis Labs cut off levels weren't lower than ours. Nothing!
CAPTAIN THUNDER: What did you do to make NASCAR do this to you?
MAYFIELD: Well, there were two things that happened the way I look at it. First of all, the test itself...Dr. Black's side of it. There is the policy itself. There are so many flaws in it, and I'm not just saying this for myself. This is coming from a lot of professional experts within drug testing, and I think you have seen them on TV, and they have all made their say about it. And so, there is a lot of problems within the policy that have been changed between then and now. So if it wasn't a flaw they would not have been changing stuff, they would've stayed with what they had.
The second thing is, and it's almost become personal between me and Brian France. It goes back to, and I'm going to throw this out there - everybody knows it - Ray Evernham and I had a problem. All I wanted to do was run better. I was racing, and I just wanted my stuff to be better, and I kind of disrupted his little fling he had going on with our...I guess you would say our development driver at the time.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Erin Crocker right?
MAYFIELD: Yeah, Erin Crocker. And, they are married now, and there again, everybody thought I was crazy when I said that - but it happened. So, I basically felt like I got blackballed.
And from a very, very reliable source, who is in direct contact with Brian France has told me several times and not just several times, a lot of times, that he (Brian France) has had a problem with me from day one. I'm from the South, and he is trying to take all of the Southern out of NASCAR, the Southeast out, just like he got rid of racetracks and everything else, and I'm just part of that. And he didn't like what I did with Ray either.
MAYFIELD: Let's talk about Ray. I don't have the quote in front of me, but you said something to the effect of Ray being an absentee owner. Do you think maybe it was OK to say to Ray, but you shouldn't have said it in front of the media?
The media was using me to get him. Everybody knew he was having an affair. Everybody knew it. He thought he was hiding it so well that nobody knew about it. But he was wrong, all of the media knew it. Nobody can read about it no, because everybody was afraid to bring it up, because it was going to create such a big uproar. So, the media comes to me at the racetrack and starts talking to me about it. They want to know where's Ray. He wasn't there that weekend. He was off at an ARCA race with her (Crocker). So they're asking me, "Where's Ray, and how does he feel about you running bad?" So I said, I don't know. I haven't talked to him. And they say, what do you mean you haven't talked to him. Well, I've haven't. I've talked to him several times about it (in the past), and told him - this is why were running bad. He told me he would fix it.
You know, I was just trying to avoid everything I could with them.
And then they asked, "Well, where is he at today?" So I said I don't know. I don't know where he's at. I knew at the time, where he was at, but I wasn't going to get in the middle of it. Then the next thing I know it comes out in the papers the next day - MAYFIELD SAYS WHERES RAY? HE'S AN ABSENTEE CAR OWNER!
That's not the way it came out. They pushed me into that, so they could open the door up to get to firing at Erin and Ray and finally bring in public that that's, what was going on. And sure enough, that's what was going on.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: So, let's talk about Brian France a little bit. Your attorney has asked for France's divorce documents and tax returns, and you just eluted to the fact that you feel Brian France has it out for you - so what is in those documents that you are looking for?
MAYFIELD: Well, I mean, there's a lot of stuff that people want to see that needs to be public. Just like everybody else's, just like your records would be, and just like my records would be - his records need to be public. He's no different than anybody else. He's fighting to keep that private. There's a lot of things, we don't know what's in there for sure, I haven't read them, don't know, nobody's told me, but there is just a lot of speculation out there I think from everyone, you know about Brian himself.
And as far as we go, all we're trying to do - is we want to do discovery. Just like they did on me. As soon as I hired an attorney, their firm and their little team over there were like terrorists to us. Just coming at me in all different directions. Digging up stuff, just like they tried to do with Marcia Grant. They came at me like it was war. I don't have the money to defend myself like I need to be against them. But I'm going to try and I'm not giving up. All we wanted was a trial. Let a jury decide what's going on. So, to do that you have to do discovery, and we wanted to do discovery just like they did on me. That means, if I'm opening up everything - lets see what you got going on Brian, in NASCAR.
I still find it hard to believe, and I think the world does to, that this is a squeaky clean sport. If they had an outside source, let's say Congress or the government got involved, or a union or whatever, because nobody is really regulating how they do their drug testing - but them. So, if they don't like you they can say, "You don't have to pee in a bottle, you tested positive and you are out of here."
So, lets just say that we could get regulated and you could go in and do a random test like they're going - I'm not sure you would see as clean of a sport as you think you would see. Maybe you would, I don't know. I think an outside source coming in and somebody else regulating it would be the fair thing, and I think the most transparent thing, and that's what they should do. And, that means if they're going to dig into my life, let's dig in to everybody's life.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Does the sport need a union?
MAYFIELD: It definitely does.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Will you try to get back in to NASCAR?
MAYFIELD: Well, as far as getting back into NASCAR, if you read the policy, I guess I could go back anytime I wanted to. Because all it says that you have to do to get back in is get retested and basically go through their little program that they asked me to go through before, and I could go back.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Your still in the lawsuit with NASCAR so you couldn't go back now right?
MAYFIELD: Well, I don't know. It doesn't say anywhere in there, in the policy, that if you have a lawsuit going on you can't come back. So, I'm not sure where we're at on that.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: So, if you could get back in would you come back to racing NASCAR?
MAYFIELD: Well, we've talked about that. But where would I go? Say I got my license back, and I walked into the garage area, the first thing that's going to happen is everyone in the garage area is going to run from me. Because, if you're in a dispute with Brian France or NASCAR everybody is scared to death of you.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Has everyone in the garage blackballed you? Do you have any friends left in the sport? Are there any drivers that you still talk to or stay in touch with?
MAYFIELD: I still know some people, you know crew members stuff like that. There's a lot of people, I've gotten a ton of support. But you've also got to understand that they are not going to associate with me until we either get this worked out or finalized. They make a good living, they are making a lot of money, and they are not going to jeopardize that.
And we all know how the all mighty works, if they (NASCAR) felt like somebody was on my side, they would be caught speeding on pit road and everything else that happens. So, they (drivers) are not going to take that chance.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Do you have any money left, and can you start your own team, or would it be too hard to find a sponsor willing to put their name on you?
MAYFIELD: Oh yeah, I mean, it would be too hard right now...I would say. But, who knows. I mean, maybe there's somebody out there who would support it.
You know that's what gets me, I get a lot of people yelling at me on Twitter saying, "Man, why don't you go away?"
They don't understand what you go through. I didn't want to be in this situation. I did not want to go through all of this. You know what I mean? But, that's the cards I'm dealt with, and I'm dealing with it. But I didn't want to do this. So all I can do is do my best to move on to whatever direction that is, and people don't get that. If you were me, what would you do? Would you sit here and say, "Okay NASCAR, your right again, I'll be your little puppet over here on a string, and I'll be a representative of your drug policy and say "Man it really worked good, and everything is great."
Just like the stands are full now when we all know they're not. I can't do that anymore and I wasn't going to do that anymore.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: So, then you end up sitting down and you don't get to race right?
MAYFIELD: Right, and I knew that. I knew the day I got an attorney and started this whole lawsuit, I knew what it was going to be. It was over.
I knew I had to either cross the line or not cross the line and I crossed it. And I knew when I went across it, I couldn't go back. But I was willing to take that chance just because I knew.
I was the first one to admit I took Adderall. I said that day one. I know that for a fact. I took Claritin-D, I know that. But that wasn't good enough for them (NASCAR). And the only time it turned into methamphetamine, was after I got an attorney. Because you don't see the results. You just get a piece of paper that says, "You tested positive for this and positive for that".
Hell, anybody can do that. Let me get my doctor, who is not a doctor, and let's go test Brian France. What do you think I can make the results out of that? "Oh Brian you tested positive!" You know what I mean, hell you could say or do whatever you want to do. That's what they (NASCAR) do. There is nobody to regulate them. And there should be, there should be some type of government regulation just like everybody else out there has. There is nobody that looks over them and makes sure they are doing things right.
You know like Brian France making contributions, you know, political contributions in three, four, or five other people's names...it's totally illegal. He's hit trees, he's wrecked - talk about dangerous! And, he's got a cousin over there that run 120 miles per hour and got caught with cocaine and telling Daytona (police) that we own this town. What do they (judge) do? They throw it out...the judge throws it out.
This is what I've got to do, I've got to get on your show and tell the story, and tell everybody that I can, and do what I gotta do, and that's where I'm at now. And I'm going to have to do that, because the local media here is not doing me any favors whatsoever, or the racing media.
I had a great interview with the SPEED Channel about a month ago with Steve Byrnes, the best one ever. It was going to be great! I couldn't wait for them to air it. It was honest. From his point of view, he was asking me honest questions that I could answer, he wasn't trying to set me up...everything was great - and then NASCAR gets wind of it.
Paul Brooks (from NASCAR) calls the President of the SPEED Channel and says, "If you air this show with Mayfield on it, it's going to jeopardize our relationship."
So, they took out everything I said, anything that amounted to anything at all - took it all out and basically made me look like an idiot on TV like I wasn't saying anything. That's what I'm dealing with.
That's what people don't understand, they say Mayfield why don't you tell us the story? Well I been telling it but it's not getting out.
All we can ask for is our day in court. That's all we ever wanted was a jury trial. Let's let them figure it out and hear the whole thing and know exactly what went on, the way the test was performed, the way Dr. Black kind of already has his opinion set out for me a week before he even seen any kind of results - well I shouldn't say seen results because he is the one that actually did the test, for some odd reason. The whole world needs to hear all this stuff before it happens again.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Let's talk about the black flag in Indy and Brian France. In 2006 you were taken out of the All State 400 at the Brickyard. You were ordered off the track by race officials without an explanation. There was a story done by a retired attorney, and the accusation is that Brian France was at his home in California and he was drunk on Scotch from earlier in the day, and he had had enough of you because of the comments you made about Ray Evernham regarding him not being at the track. There was also talk that you were privately promoting a "Where Is Ray?" t-shirt that had been popping up around the garage area, and he (France) kind of had it out for you. And so, drunk on Scotch he black flagged you and took you out of the Brickyard without an explanation. So tell us how much of that is true, and what's the story there?
MAYFIELD: What I do recall about my part from the day at Indy, you're exactly right about the deal with Ray and I. I was having trouble, and I hadn't done anything wrong as far as breaking the contract so the only thing he could even remotely say was that I fell out of the top 35 in points. So, that day we were close - we were right on the edge, and I had wrecked the car earlier in the race, kind of busted the right fender, but we were still running pretty decent. And what had happened was, we kept working on the car getting it a little better but we really weren't running good because it was crashed. But I was still holding on, and if we finished we would have still stayed in the top 35. And I think we did after that anyway (stay in top 35). But the whole deal was we were right on the line of being in or out of the show the following week.
I remember my crew chief coming on the radio and saying pit next time by, and we had just got through putting tires on like four or five laps before that. And I was like really, what's going on, what's wrong with it? So he says, just pit next time by. I come back on the radio, "Wow, what's wrong?" I'm sitting there keeping up with the pack, running the speed I'm supposed to be running, so what's the problem? He says pit next time by or they are going to black flag you. In this sport, if they are going to black flag you they call down and tell the crew chief, "Hey, we are going to black flag you if you don't bring it in next time by." There are so many times we come into the pits and the fans or nobody ever sees the black flag, because they call on the radio and they tell you to bring it in or they are going to black flag you. And that's what happened that day. I pull in, and I'm sitting on pit road, and I'm looking around like, well nobody's working on it, what's going on. Then Ray comes on the radio and says just parked the thing.
So, at that point in time I knew nothing about him (France) and didn't even think about it. All I cared about was just pulling behind the wall, and getting out of their you know. And then you know, we came up with some stuff that we were told, and the people have signed affidavits, which I can't really get into - to disclose all of that as far as that goes. We learned about this at a later date. A couple of years later. And that's when it all came out, and when I found that out - it all made sense. Because I remember it as plain as day, and I wondered to this day what happened.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Well, maybe you can't say it but I can say it. The report came from Vince and Sandy Garcia, who were at the time Brian France's mother-in-law and father-in-law. They were the people that actually signed an affidavit saying that they were there at Brian France's home in California, and Brian France was drunk on Scotch, and he made the call to Mike Helton and told him to black flag you.
MAYFIELD: You're exactly right, and that's what we were told. And it all made sense to me then...And, that he had made comments about me. He was not going to have one of his drivers calling out one of his owners like that. And, that the drivers were pretty much nothing but laborers, and basically we mean nothing.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: What about these t-shirts? Did you actually print up a t-shirt saying "Where Is Ray?"
MAYFIELD: Somebody gave me a -shirt that said "Where Is Ray?" I never wore it around the garage area. And there were other ones that were around the garage area. I did not make them up. Never saw them, never heard of them until they brought one to me and handed it to me in my motorhome.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: So, who made the t-shirts?
MAYFIELD: Somebody from the #38 team - one of the Yates guys. They were doing it for a joke. I mean that stuff happens all the time.
Let me tell you another good one. When they (NASCAR) first started out, they had a group of attorneys out of New York obviously, and they had ones out of Winston-Salem doing their local stuff. Well, all about this time when this was going on, all of a sudden, they got rid of their Winston-Salem attorneys and they got a new firm. And we are like, I wonder why they switched. Well, come to find out - the new attorneys they had gotten - one of them was the judges old clerk, for years! So there again, now it ties all up together. I'm not saying that that's part of it or nothing, but it's kind of coincidental that they go and get the judges ex-clerk.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Jeremy, this is a country of second chances, yet it seems like you are not getting a second chance from anyone?
MAYFIELD: I haven't even talked about this to anybody really from NASCAR. Not Brian France, Helton, Robin Pemberton, none of them guys. I talked to Robin, I think the second day after I got a call saying I was suspended, and he said, "Just do what Dr. Black tells you to do." That's all I got from him. And then in court when we won our injunction the first time, I went to Brian and I said, "Brian, look man, I don't want to be a part of this just as much is you don't. Whatever we can do to work together to make this thing work, you know fix it, or whatever we need to do, I'm with you on that." I'm trying to be nice. The guy looks at me and says, "Jeremy, this isn't about you anymore." And then he turned around and walked off. And that's the only conversation I've had with him.
The least they could have done, I mean what they should have done, was have a little bit more respect, and say, "Jeremy look, you tested positive for methamphetamine's, what are you taking?"
I would have told them, I'm taking Adderall.
OK, don't take it anymore, and we'll retest you. Show you are not taking it anymore, and then everything is cool.
That's what they should have done. They should have had the courtesy to do that. They should not have had a press conference about this. You don't see this (with other sports). Can you imagine if the NFL stopped right before one of their games, and said wait a minute, press conference, lets tell the world that so and so tested for whatever. They don't do that, you know, it just makes the whole sport look bad. And that's where being the leader of the sport, he (France) should've known better than that.
Instead, he is running around making comments to people like, "Watch what I do to Mayfield now." and "Watch what I do to Mayfield in court." Because he said he loves litigation, that's his favorite thing, going to court, being part of lawsuits, and that stuff. And to sit there and say, watch what I do to Mayfield, that's not good.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: So exactly what was the trial about?
MAYFIELD: What happened was like I said before, when you will get a drug test on you have an "A" sample and a "B" sample, this is just normal stuff. You're supposed to follow these guidelines. Well, those guidelines say if you test positive, you can have your "B" sample sent off to another lab, and that the "B" sample belongs to the donor. So, when it comes time and mine tested positive, I should be able to say okay, I want my "B" sample sent over to Lab Corp and can get them to test it, to make sure your lab didn't make a mistake. Well, we couldn't do it, the "B" sample was already opened up. So, there was no way for me to contest anything about my drug test because there was no clean sample to retest.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Why did they open the "B" sample?
MAYFIELD: Right. Exactly!
CAPTAIN THUNDER: So, you never got an answer?
MAYFIELD: And that's why on my second test, I went straight to the hospital. I went to Lab Corp and they retested me at Lab Corp just 20 minutes after my second test NASCAR gave me when they showed up at my house. Because I knew I wasn't going to be to see my "B" sample because they already got me like that once and I wasn't going to let them get me again.
So, they come back, "He's positive again."
Well, we get our Lab Corp results back and nope, no he's not. So, lets send the "B" sample to Dr. Black, and lets send it to Lab Corp and let them check the second "B" sample that you got because surely you haven't opened it up yet, have you?
They told us, "No we can't send it to Lab Corp because they don't do the type of testing we do." And, Lab Corp is the best lab around for doing that.
Both tests from NASCAR...I have yet to see the "B" samples, or even been able to send it to another lab to have another lab check it. And there is just more of that though, you know how much they said was in there...nanograms per milliliter - it was three times the lethal limit. I would have been dead three times over.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Jeremy, did you ever try Meth?
MAYFIELD: No.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Not once in your life have you smoked Meth?
MAYFIELD: No never.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Pot?
MAYFIELD: Never.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Cocaine?
MAYFIELD: Never.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: So, your drug free your entire life?
MAYFIELD: The only thing is, I have been around people who have smoked pot, like when I was in high school. I don't smoke cigarettes, and never did smoke. I have drank beer, done whiskey or shots here and there but I'm not a drinker. My dad was a bad alcoholic and I swore to myself 30-years ago that I wasn't going to be like that. And he's not alive here now to defend himself but he would tell you the same thing.
That's why I raced. I loved racing. That's what I grew up doing, I missed all of the **** in high school and all of that stuff, because all I did was race. Anybody that knew me, and knows me now, knows that.
I have been good to them (NASCAR). I have done everything they have asked me to do. But there is a point where you can only take so much. And I have done a lot of stuff for NASCAR. But one thing I was not going to do, and I will not do and that is accused me of failing a drug test that I did not fail.
And yes, on day one I admitted I took Adderall. I was taking doctor prescribed Adderall and Claritin-D. NASCAR knew, I took Claritin-D, it was on my physical sheet every year. And they knew that, and that's the only problem I have with it. I'll take one for the team for a lot of people, but I damn sure wasn't going down for this.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: How long were you on Adderall for?
MAYFIELD: Like two months. And the only reason I started taking that was because when I started my own team I sucked at the business side of things...like trying to do paperwork and do everything that you have to do to be an owner. But I did want to fail as an owner. So, I said well, maybe I need to try this, maybe it will help me be more focused. But, I couldn't tell if it did anything to me. And according to Dr. Black, I was getting all jacked up. You want to see me jacked up, that's when I don't take it. That's what ADD HD does.
CAPTAIN THUNDER: Jeremy, we covered a lot. Is there anything that you want to leave the fans with that you would like to say before we let you out of here tonight?
MAYFIELD: All I want, and I'm not trying to just bash people all the time, and bash NASCAR - thats not what I want to do. And one thing I want everyone to know is that I do not want to be part of a lawsuit, trust me, thats not where I want to be. I didn't want to do it, I didn't even want to be a part of this thing.
All I want now that I am a part of it, and it's created this huge monster - I'm not going to back down, they obviously know that now, and then all I want is my day in court.
I want an honest day in court, and whether thats going to happen or not, I don't know. We are going to try.
We filed our appeal, and it looks really good. We are really excited about it, and we think that if we win the appeal we can go back and do discovery on how the test was done, and dive into Dr. Black's business over there and find out exactly what he did and how he did it. And also, lets find out how many people in the sport have been testing. Let's look at everything. Let's all open it up and be transparent about everything and then we can make that decision as to what went wrong that day - and that's all I want. That's all I've asked for. And if I can get that, the people that are anti-Jeremy - you won't have to worry about me anymore. You will never hear nothing else out of me. All I want is a fair day in court.
