It's time for a wake up call

Do you hear that sound? It's the alarm going off for a slumbering NASCAR! Wake up people!!!

One of your suspended drivers is calling you out and you're content to stay in the dark about a serious problem in your sport. Ignorance is not bliss and this situation is anything but funny. He's using his fifteen minutes in the spotlight to share one of NASCAR's dirty little secrets and the golden boy isn't the only thing that's coming out tarnished. You've got to be pretty stupid to think that simply relying on suspicions of a problem to test these drivers is cutting it. Illegal street drugs isn't just the issue anymore. Aaron Fike didn't just admit he had a heroin addiction. He was also addicted to painkillers and that's where the real issue is. How many drivers use these same prescription drugs every day and no one thinks there's a problem. This isn't just football or baseball here. This is a sport where it's athletes are driving cars that go 200 mph and that drive dangerously close to unsuspecting crew members and NASCAR officials on pit road. His own team members didn't even know there was a problem, so how could they have ever stopped it without his arrest?

I'm not going to extend Aaron Fike's journey to stardom by posting his disgusting story of the drugs he used while driving in the Craftsman Truck Series on my blog. I refuse to let some punk destroy the sport I love. I do not believe his intentions were admirable, otherwise he wouldn't have put so many other lives in danger. I care about Denny Hamlin and the 42 other drivers on the racetrack. I care about the crew members and Officials on pit lane. And I care that NASCAR thinks it's current drug policy is okay...it's not. If it can happen once, it can happen again. Please don't let something horrible happen before you do something about it!