{"id":204664,"date":"2025-10-11T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204664\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:38:09","slug":"ex-nascar-star-claims-title-16-years-after-suspension-motorsport-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204664\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NASCAR star claims title 16 years after suspension – Motorsport – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long removed from his suspension by NASCAR<\/a>, five-time Cup Series race winner Jeremy Mayfield<\/a> is still picking up silverware at the age of 56.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mayfield, who appeared in 433 Cup Series races between 1995 and 2009 for the likes of Cale Yarborough Motorsports, Penske-Kranefuss Racing, and Evernham Motorsports, recently claimed the Grand National Super Series championship, beating fellow former NASCAR star A.J. Henriksen to the title.<\/p>\n

Raced throughout Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, the series features former Pro-Cup cars, ARCA, and Cup Series cars. The 2025 season saw Mayfield win nine of 13 races in the No. 19 D2 Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro.<\/p>\n

In a statement following his title win, Mayfield described his season as \u201cunbelievable,\u201d going on to add, as per Motorsport.com<\/a>, \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be possible without all the people involved. Most importantly my wife Shana who had to put up with all the late nights working and me being away from home quite a bit. She\u2019s been able to stay home with Lucy on the weekends and take care of everything.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s had an extremely hard year with her mom\u2019s health battles. Her support of me through everything has been second to none for all these years and I love her more than she will ever know.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mayfield also went on to thank Donnie and Billie Jo Doster, the owners of D2, along with their various team partners, his mechanic, Yates Racing engines, and the Super Series.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost importantly I want to thank God, plain and simple,\u201d he added. \u201cThis road hasn\u2019t been easy, not even close. I\u2019ve been through more in racing and in life than most people will ever know.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were times I didn\u2019t know how I\u2019d make it, but God always found a way to pull me through. Every setback, every hard lesson, every time I got knocked down it all led to this.<\/p>\n

DON’T MISS<\/p>\n

\u201cThis season means more than words can ever say. It\u2019s proof that no matter how far you fall or how hard it gets, if you keep the faith, God\u2019s got you. Thank you, Lord, for never giving up on me when the world did and I wanted to give up on myself. Every mile, every scar, every fight it was all worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suspended by NASCAR in 2009 after testing positive for methamphetamines twice, Mayfield has never altered his stance that he was innocent. His belief is that the positive results were down to a mixture of having taken Claritin-D along with Adderall prescribed by his doctor, according to Newsweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking in 2024, Mayfield was critical of NASCAR\u2019s management for failing to open up paths of communication between himself and those in charge.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we could’ve sat down on Day 1, before they made any announcements, we’d have had it worked out. But they didn’t want to do that,\u201d he said. \u201cTo this day, I still haven’t sat down with either one of them and talked about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

As such, Mayfield\u2019s NASCAR career never resumed, ending with him having racked up 96 top 10 finishes, with his final win having come at Michigan in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long removed from his suspension by NASCAR, five-time Cup Series race winner Jeremy Mayfield is still picking up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,100328,100327,99260,2332,634,100326,82],"class_list":["post-204664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-d2-motorsports","tag-grand-national-super-series","tag-jeremy-mayfield","tag-motorsport-section","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-suspension","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}