Mayfield, Hitchcock and Spillane equals Plots, Subplots and Double-Crosses

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by Steve Wronkowicz

I am co-host of the syndicated radio show: ON PIT ROW. Over ten years on the air and three on the net; see what can happen when I don't let the facts get in the way of my opinions.

July 19, 2009 9:30 pm UTC 7 Comments

If it walks like, flies like, quacks like and craps like a duck… maybe its a dog.

That is where I’m at with the whole Jeremy Mayfield soap opera.  So little makes sense that I’ve had to try and think way outside the box.  After I finished writing my last Jeremy Mayfield post, I had to try an figure out what exactly was going on with the two diametrically opposed stories of Jeremy and NASCAR.

The only thing I can come up with is the belief that NASCAR and Jeremy Mayfield are working together for the betterment of the sport.  What if Jeremy were actually working with NASCAR to help throw up the largest smoke screen in sports history?  What if NASCAR were using Jeremy willingly to mask a bigger scandal with bigger names involved?  True conspiracy theory stuff here.  This is true 1950′s double cross movie stuff.

So little else makes any kind of sense.  Comments have been make by Brian France in passing that there were other positive tests in the garage area.  If those positives reflected badly on some of the bigger names in the sport wouldn’t it be in NASCAR’s best interest to divert the attention?  I was told this weekend while covering the weekly series at Toledo Speedway, from the usual “reliable source” that the Shane Hmeil “bust” was intended to scare straight a high profile NASCAR driver.  I don’t know if that is true, but it is a story that I believe COULD have happened.

Just like I can believe that NASCAR could be looking to use a down and out driver/owner to mask other ills in the sport.  Why Mayfield you might ask?  Because Mayfield is believable in the roll.  You can stretch your belief system to either believe or not that Mayfield is a drug user.  He has had enough weird behaviors in his past to believe he could be guilty of what NASCAR alleges; just ask Roger Penske or Ray Evernham.

Yet at the same time he shows none of the outward signs of the typical methamphetamine user.  There are no rotten teeth or sunken eyes.  As any good private dick from the 50′s might say; “Somethin’ stinks like a four day old carp.”

It’s the stuff that Alfred Hitchcock or Mickey Spillane could be proud.

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7 Responses to “Mayfield, Hitchcock and Spillane equals Plots, Subplots and Double-Crosses”

  1. User Avatar Luke on July 19th, 2009 11:06 pm

    I’ll say… it wouldn’t surprise me.

    NASCAR meets Mayfield in a dark alley. They know his team is struggling, and likely not to be able to keep it on the track.

    Jeremy’s bills are still piling up. After all, owning your own team isn’t exactly cheap, and sponsors are fixing to walk.

    NASCAR offers a to make a deal, and Mayfield takes it.

    [queue evil, sport dominating laugh]

    I honestly don’t know what the heck to believe anymore. NASCAR says they have a failed test. Jeremy takes independent tests before and after the second failure, both come back clean.

    He says he’s been having himself tested by a lab every few days, and documenting through video everything he does.

    I don’t know what the truth is. I do know this though, this little soap opera has the internet talking. You’d think that Jeremy had put on a red jacket, white sparkly glove, and hung out with some little kids or something. (Awww…. too soon?)

    I won’t say that it wouldn’t surprise me. Anything is possible at this point. However, who in the heck at the top would be their true target? Who’s the real bigshot living on the edge?

    May be time to grab some popcorn, and hang on to watch the show.

  2. User Avatar Steve Wronkowicz on July 19th, 2009 11:52 pm

    Luke-you’re on my page–cue the organ music.

  3. User Avatar Marc on July 20th, 2009 9:33 pm

    Steve – “So little else makes any kind of sense. Comments have been make by Brian France in passing that there were other positive tests in the garage area. If those positives reflected badly on some of the bigger names in the sport wouldn’t it be in NASCAR’s best interest to divert the attention?”

    Steve, Steve, Steve, you need to revisit those France quotes reread them and the context in which they were given.

    Yes he did say there were other “positives” but not what you’re attempting to imply. They were false positives that resulted in negative results when the “B” samples were tested.

    As such no one needed to know about them. period. End. Of. That. Story.

    As for NASCAR masking “a bigger scandal with bigger names involved” Well. word on the street is the Resurrection of Big Bill France Sr. is in the works.

  4. User Avatar Marc on July 20th, 2009 9:37 pm

    Luke – “He says he’s been having himself tested by a lab every few days, and documenting through video everything he does”

    Wanna buy a transpacific ocean bridge? I got one dirt cheap.

    That so called documentary he and his filming buddies are undertaking didn’t start until after the July 6th testing according to what mayfield said during the Sirius interview.

  5. ed on July 21st, 2009 7:56 pm

    Evernham has said recently on the record he never saw any behavior or actions that would make him think mayfield was a drug user, specailly a chronic one Nascar is suggesting……

  6. User Avatar Steve Wronkowicz on July 21st, 2009 10:24 pm

    NASCAR’s old drug policy was predicated on “snitches”. The garage was to police its own when there was suspicious behavior by someone. For all of the “chronic drug use” that he supposedly was involved in for all those years–wouldn’t someone have noticed and turned him in?

  7. User Avatar Charlie Turner on July 22nd, 2009 4:52 pm

    I would think, that someone – either somebody who hated him or maybe a caring friend – would have busted him. I also believe that his retired-cop crew chief wouldn’t have been fooled. This just doesn’t look like what it’s supposed to be. It’s flippin’ weird.

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