Jeremy Mayfield and Dale Cagle, business manager for Mayfield Motorsports Inc., have gone on record confirming that which the tallglassofmilk reported to Answer this... readers in April: there exists a "close personal relationship" between Evernham Motorsports owner Ray Evernham and his development driver, Erin Crocker.
From Scenedaily.com:
In the complaint filed with the court, Mayfield and Mayfield Motorsports Inc., which handles the driver's business affairs, claim: "For significant periods of time [Evernham] has been, at best, an absentee manager and owner, largely because, ... at some point in time Ray Evernham had entered into an [sic] close personal relationship with a female driver he engages to drive on NASCAR's ARCA, truck and Busch Series. That relationship became a subject of considerable discussion and distraction in the Nextel Cup garage area during the 2006 season. [...]
"During the 2006 season, however, apparently because he was preoccupied by his personal relationship with a female driver Evernham engaged to drive on the ARCA, Busch and Truck Series, Ray Evernham has not been actively involved or engaged in the affairs or operation of the team," Cagle said in his affidavit.
