The only "good" in this story is the fact that after this NASCAR/Mayfield mess is settled. No other driver should be treated like Mayfield has. I would think like in the past, NASCAR will settle out of court. They can keep any dangerous precedent from being set and at the same time try to hide the exact conditions of the settlement. The "bad" is the way NASCAR has manipulated the media. They have people like Marty Smith and Jeff Hammond screaming guilty of Mayfield, before the case is even heard. As for the stepmother and other alleged witnesses, that's pure baloney. The "ugly", this is the good part. Seems Brian has a very dark past. We all know about his drunken driving problems, but then again he has never been ticketed for them. I had always heard these rumors about Brian and his drug use, but could never find a source to check them out. Until now, Dirt Under the Asphalt, by Jack G. Flowers (RoseDog Books 2009) Below is just a sample from it. “All the stuff presented in this book was acquired over a period of time and the majority of it is stuff that NASCAR had people too afraid to write about, in fear of having credentials pulled so they couldn’t write about the sport they cared about”. “Also, the promise of payoff is far greater than the alternative and give NASCAR credit, it found out real early that the best way to control a media is to keep it fat and happy and taken care of, monetarily. They must not have cared too much about this sport or they would have stopped and taken a look around them and went from there”. “But people in motorsports are so blinded they can’t see the forest for the trees and I’m afraid that’s how it always will be”. "Now, NASCAR is doing everything it can, in a controlled way, to clean up it's drug image although its CEO, Brian France, who has been connected with drugs on more than one occasion.
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