NASCAR requested that a federal judge order mental and physical examinations for Jeremy Mayfield to determine if he is a methamphetamine addict or if he simply has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Along with their request, NASCAR also filed three new affidavits and one deposition from different people who claim they have seen Mayfield use methamphetamine.

The three affidavits are from three of Mayfield’s friends from his home state of Kentucky, Barry Lee, Michael Buskill and Steven Russelberg.

Lee’s affidavit states that he witnessed Mayfield using the drug on multiple occasions in 1999 and 2000 including once on the way to Lowe’s Motor Speedway when Mayfield allegedly snorted methamphetamine off of a mirror.

Russelberg claims that he lived on Mayfield’s property and saw him using the drug multiple times between 2006 and 2007, mostly in the barn.

The lone deposition was from Mayfield’s former brother-in-law, David Keith. The deposition was taken August 19th and Keith testified that he witnessed the drug use between 1998 through 2000 in front of NASCAR’s attorneys and Mayfield himself.

NASCAR originally suspended Mayfield from competition back in May after he allegedly failed a random drug test. Mayfield then sued NASCAR for defamation, claiming that it was a combination of Adderol for his ADHD and over-the-counter Claritin-D that caused him to fail the test.

Since then, Mayfield’s former stepmother, Lisa Mayfield, came into the picture in another affidavit filed by NASCAR. She claims to also have witnessed him using methamphetamine.

In August, Lisa Mayfield was arrested at his home in Catawba County, NC. She was charged with public intoxication and had warrants issued for four counts of simple assault and second-degree trespassing.

After that incident, she filed a defamation of character suit against Mayfield and he filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her on September 4th over the death of his father in 2007.

NASCAR’s filing yesterday has requested that U.S. District Judge Graham Mullen send Mayfield for a psychiatric, neuropsychological, and physical examinations in November and NASCAR selected the physicians they would like to examine Mayfield.

The injunction appeal for Mayfield’s suspension is tentatively scheduled for December 1-3 while the trial for the suit as a whole will not begin for a year.  

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