Outspoken Smith holds court at Lowe's

Crash.Net, May, 2009

Speedway Motorsports Inc. chairman Bruton Smith took issue with NASCAR on several fronts during a wide-ranging question-and-answer session Saturday at Lowe's Motor Speedway.

In addition to suggesting that the sanctioning body should do something with the new racecar that would give crew chiefs more creative leeway, Smith called on NASCAR to disclose the substance for which owner/driver Jeremy Mayfield was suspended after failing a drug test May 1 at Richmond.

"NASCAR, in my opinion, should come forth and say what the substance is," Smith said.

The outspoken Smith also decried the severity of the penalty NASCAR levied on Carl Long, after inspectors found that the engine in the Dodge that Long brought to LMS for last week's Sprint All-Star Race exceeded the...

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