Former suspended NASCAR driver commits suicide

Kevin Grubb started racing in the NASCAR's Craftsman Truck Series in 1996 when he was 18. The next year he debuted in the Nationwide Series, bringing home ten top-five finishes and 32 top-ten finishes in 174 starts. On May 6 he was found in the Alpine Hotel in Richmond, Virginia dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
In 2004 he was dinged for violating NASCAR's anti-drug policy, and consented to random testing from then on during and after his two-year probation. Just three months after he was reinstated in 2006, NASCAR officials tried to test him after he crashed at a race in Richmond but he refused, resulting in NASCAR banning him for life. Grubb was 31 years old and authorities are investigating his death.

[Source: Inside Line]

Share This Photo X