Is Mayfield Cup Material?
It’s not usual for NASCAR owners to use alternate drivers for the road courses, so it shouldn’t be a big deal that Bill Davis Racing is replacing Jeremy Mayfield for the Sonoman race this weekend, with Butch Leitzinger, a road course expert from the American Le Mans Series.
However, Mayfield has been struggling in Cup cars for the last 5 years, without question. And it was only a year ago when he was involved in a controversy with Ray Evernham, alleging that Evernham wasn’t giving his Cup team enough attention, because Evernham was focusing too much on Erin Crocker, a developmental driver at the time.
Mayfield was subsequently released from Evernham Motorsports, and then signed with Bill Davis Racing. Mayfield did have his 15 minutes of fame when he won at Pocono in 2000, bumping Dale Earnhardt (Sr.) out of the way on the closing laps. NASCAR like other professional sports, has the elite drivers, the 2nd-tier drivers, journeyman drivers, and back-markers that fill the field. Mayfield was a 2nd-tier driver in the early 2000 years, but has fallen back to journeyman status, and these drivers seem to shuffle between the 2nd-tier teams, never really establishing themselves as go-to drivers for the top teams.
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