One of the primary issues Jeremy Mayfield’s attorneys are using to get their suspended client back on the track would not hold up in the National Football League or the Olympics.

Attorney John Buric argued in a Mecklenburg [N.C.] County Court on Friday that Mayfield’s positive test for amphetamines should be thrown out because the second test, a “B” sample, was done at the same laboratory as the “A” sample.

He will argue that again on Wednesday when Mayfield makes his second court appearance asking for a temporary restraining order that would lift the indefinite suspension for violating the substance abuse policy and allow him to drive this weekend at Pocono.

Does it matter? Jeremy Mayfield, and his attorney are not denying that he used the drugs anymore. Now they’re arguing that the samples weren’t tested somewhere else. Oh boo hoo.

Sitting in a stock car, traveling hundreds of miles per hour, is no place to be when you’re on that type of drug. Prescription or otherwise. If Jeremy Mayfield has a condition that requires him to take that medication, he shouldn’t be allowed to endanger the other drivers, the pit crews, or the fans. Period.

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