Jeff Burton wants NASCAR to give him and gink drivers word of honour that Jeremy Mayfield is not under the control of any drugs whenever he gets back behind the circle of a Sprint Cup wheels in an recognized event. Mayfield was suspended indefinitely from NASCAR in May after he failed a stray analysis for drugs at Richmond, but on Wednesday he got a pro tem law restraining order from a federal court in the US, which allows him to rallye again. Burton said on Thursday at Daytona that he does not see eye to eye solely with the judge's ruling, because even if it takes some term to get the results of a test, safeness for all concerned should be considered above everything else. In the court filings, deem Graham Mullen stated middle the reasons to allocate Mayfield an dictate that the financial harm done to the driver by preventing him from racing, far outweighed the stuff damage to NASCAR's event safety. "One thingumajig that I disagree with the mediate on is that my safety is important to me and if there's an split-second test available then I regard the judge's opinion is 100 per cent right," said Burton. "But there is no imperative probe available.
At the same time, from Jeremy's perspective, if the moderate ruled that [the follow-up of the test] can be questioned then it should be questioned and he should have the cleverness to front into it. If that's what the court's ruled. "It's a refractory post for anybody to make that steadfastness because he potentially puts my safety in jeopardy with that decision. The other decisiveness potentially puts Jeremy's hurtle in jeopardy so what do you do? That's almost not a suitable answer.
" Burton says that if and when Mayfield is back in Sprint Cup competition, he would go for NASCAR to proof him as many times as it deems life-or-death in sisterhood to ensure that he is completely spotless when he returns to the racetrack. "If it takes 72 hours, in my world, in this invalid and nothing against Jeremy, I gauge Jeremy a confidant of mine, but 72 hours from him being on the racetrack, if that's how protracted it takes to get a outcome [from a drug test] then he should be tested," said Burton. "And 24 hours after that he should be tested again and 24 hours after that it should be tested again and 24 hours after that it should be tested again. I don't look upon that harassment. "The act of the difficulty is that he failed a poison check and that opens the door to question.
I rate to 100 per cent recognize that he is 100 per cent laundered and so he should be tested soon enough, originally enough, often enough to where he can never be on the racetrack while he is using drugs." Mayfield was expected to undertake to rip this weekend at Daytona, but the 40-year-old was not able to get a actuate for Saturday night's event.