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NASCAR Driver Fike Glad Luck Didn't Run Out

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 29, 2007

CINCINNATI - NASCAR driver Aaron Fike understands where he was headed when he was arrested while using heroin in an amusement park parking lot this summer.

"After four months of intense rehabilitation, I know that if it were not for my arrest, I would be dead," he said. "At one point during my addiction, I stopped breathing and nearly died. Sooner or later, my luck would have run out."

Fike's remarks came in a rehab plan he wrote for a Warren County judge. The judge accepted Fike's proposal to avoid jail by going to schools and tracks to deliver an anti-drug message.

Fike was eighth in the point standings and in the running for Craftsman Truck Series rookie of the year when he was arrested with his fiancee in the Kings Island parking lot outside Cincinnati in July.

NASCAR suspended Fike indefinitely and Red Horse Racing replaced him in the No. 1 Toyota Tundra with veteran driver David Green.

The Associated Press

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