NASCAR president Mike Helton said the reaction by the drivers to the published report that former Truck and Nationwide driver Aaron Fike used heroin the same day he drove in some races is a positive sign for the stock-car sport.
“The NASCAR community polices the community,” Helton added. “The positiveness of all the drivers talking and everything, I think, echoes the responsibility that exists in this sport to avoid all that and to police all that. That’s why we think that the reasonable suspicion policy works as an umbrella from a NASCAR perspective.”
“There are a lot of random drug testing policies or substance-abuse policies in our sport and they come through the car owners,” he said. “We’re different than other sports where we have multiple layers of independence. That’s why we feel like the reasonable suspicion element that NASCAR implements has served its purpose and works well.”
“But we know of car owners that have random testing programs with their employees. So those elements are already there.”
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