NASCAR: Bombshell report may vindicate Tyler Dippel

Tyler Dippel was recently suspended indefinitely by NASCAR after he was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree. But a bombshell report may vindicate him.

Last Friday, NASCAR Truck Series driver Tyler Dippel was suspended indefinitely by NASCAR for a reason that was not disclosed at the time.

It was only revealed that the 19-year-old Walkill, New York native had been suspended for violating the Member Conduct Guidelines of the NASCAR Rule Book. Specifically, he was suspended for violating Section 12.1, which has to do with actions detrimental to stock car racing.

Earlier this week, the exact reason for his suspension was revealed.

On Sunday, August 18, the Young’s Motorsports driver was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, a Class A misdemeanor, by New York State Police in his hometown, after a trooper pulled over his car and found Amphetamine and Dextroamphetamine in a pill bottle inside a backpack when they searched the vehicle.

But a report from Dirt Track Digest suggests that Dippel may be in the clear.

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According to Dirt Track Digest’s Jay Carpinello, Dippel had a passenger in his car after leaving Orange County Fairgrounds Speedway in Middletown, New York when he was pulled over.

This trooper did not believe that Dippel was a NASCAR driver, nor that he and his passenger appeared the way they did after a long weekend of racing during which they did not get much sleep. He asked both Dippel and his passenger whether or not they had been smoking marijuana or doing other drugs.

It was after Dippel had given him permission to search the vehicle when the trooper found this backpack. However, the backpack belonged to a third party who was not in the vehicle, and the medication therein was prescribed to that same third party. But because Dippel was the owner and operator of the vehicle that contained this medication, he was the one charged.

But that’s not the whole story.

Dippel passed a voluntary drug screening after he was arrested. Additionally, the third party to whom the prescription was written submitted a letter to the Orange County District Attorney’s office effectively clearing Dippel of all wrongdoing. This person admitted that both the backpack and prescription were his and that he was the one who put them in Dippel’s car.

If this is true, there are a lot of people who owe this young man a huge apology for the way by which they’ve been berating him on social media over the past week after assuming he was “ruining his career” by using drugs and getting arrested for doing so.

Tyler Dippel’s court date is today, and the preliminary hearing is scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m. ET at the Orange County Supreme Court in Goshen, New York. Depending on the outcome of this situation, it will be interesting to see whether or not NASCAR reinstates him, and if so, when they do.