AP source: Sprint Cup driver fails drug test
A NASCAR Sprint Cup driver has failed a drug test, the first under the sport’s new drug policy.
A person familiar with the test told The Associated Press the driver failed a drug test from last weekend’s race at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway. The driver is not competing in Saturday night’s race in Darlington, S.C.
The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the driver’s identity has yet to be made public. NASCAR was planning a 6 p.m. EDT news conference to discuss the test.
Any driver who fails a drug test is subject to an immediate and indefinite suspension.
Last September, NASCAR announced a new, tougher drug policy. The guidelines were strengthened in part because of former Truck Series driver Aaron Fike’s admission that he had used heroin — even on days he raced. That led Tony Stewart, Kevin Harvick and other veteran drivers to call on NASCAR to add random drug testing to its policy.
Under the new rules, everyone was tested before the season began, and random tests are scheduled throughout the year.
Trucks driver Ron Hornaday last year admitted using testosterone for more than a year — before it was added to the sport’s banned list — to treat a medical issue. Hornaday has Grave’s disease, a condition he is now treating with Synthroid, which replaces a hormone normally produced by the thyroid gland to regulate the body’s energy and metabolism.
NASCAR did not punish him for the testosterone admission because the cream did not enhance his performance or impair his judgment.
On Wednesday, former Nationwide Series driver Kevin Grubb was found dead in a Richmond-area motel room from what police said was an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Grubb was suspended indefinitely by NASCAR after a second failed drug test in 2006 and never raced again in a NASCAR sanctioned event.
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