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Helton encourages Sprint Cup drivers to focus on fans, not COT issues

By David Newton
ESPN.com

Friday, June 13, 2008

CONCORD, N.C. -- NASCAR called a mandatory meeting for Sprint Cup drivers and owners before Friday's practice at Michigan International Speedway in which president Mike Helton encouraged everyone to keep the fans first. Was this what amounted to a fake reverse in football, a smokescreen, so to speak? Was this an attempt to change the focus from the $225 million sexual harassment lawsuit former NASCAR official Mauricia Grant filed earlier this week? Not according to NASCAR officials. Not accor ...

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