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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP)—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.
NASCAR provided a transcript of the actual conversation between Mayfield and Regina Sweeney, an employee of Aegis Sciences Corp., which runs NASCAR’s drug-testing program. NASCAR said it would provide the recording upon request.
“I’m calling on behalf of NASCAR who has requested that you take a drug test today within the next two hours … and I was going to help find you a location that you could go to based upon where you are right now,” Sweeney said in the transcript.
“Right, well I’m gonna have to—let me talk to my attorney first. … So, and I’ll get back with you,” Mayfield is quoted as replying.
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.
NASCAR provided a transcript of the actual conversation between Mayfield and Regina Sweeney, an employee of Aegis Sciences Corp., which runs NASCAR’s drug-testing program. NASCAR said it would provide the recording upon request.
“I’m calling on behalf of NASCAR who has requested that you take a drug test today within the next two hours … and I was going to help find you a location that you could go to based upon where you are right now,” Sweeney said in the transcript.
“Right, well I’m gonna have to—let me talk to my attorney first. … So, and I’ll get back with you,” Mayfield is quoted as replying.