Mayfield drug tested again by Nascar

openwheelracer · Admin/Mod/Eyewitness

Mayfield drug tested again by Nascar

spdracer19 · Pick-um contest administrator

This is a quote from the article:

"Tests processed by Aegis, the Nashville, Tenn., laboratory commissioned by NASCAR, typically take four days to analyze."

What is strange about this is I work in the nuclear power industry and they have a company in Minnisota (Meditox or something like that) do the analysis and they have the results in 24 hours or less and in the early days of the outage training they get 100's of samples a day. I believe there is a preliminary test that is faster and if it is negative it is considered final but if anything is positive there is a more timely & costly mass-specto gas chromography (something like thet) test that is highly more accurate on determining the exact postive drug(s). They may get a initial positive if you eat to many poppy seed rolls but the second test can tell it is not the narcotic type of drug because there are additional additives in heroin or what ever. Oh and we have a list of banned substances ahead of time.

Just makes me wonder about both sides.

openwheelracer · Admin/Mod/Eyewitness

From espn.com:

http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/cup/news/story?id=4317400