Meth mess

Somebody better tell NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield that old Chinese saying, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and I’m a real dumbass.”

OK, I might not have that quote exactly right, but you get the point.

Mayfield, of course, got in hot water recently for being suspended by NASCAR for a positive drug test. (Meth, in this case.) And of course he took it like a man.

Just kidding. He did what any jock does these days when faced with a similar challenge: Find a judge to overturn the suspension.

Which he did, and he was back in NASCAR’s good graces, sort of.

But then an inconvenient truth knocked ol’ Jeremy back in the pot. He failed a second drug test.

Can it get more interesting? Hell yes! His stepmother says she saw him doing meth at least 30 times in recent years!!!

Now, you might think that Methfield — I mean, Mayfield — would back down and hang it up. Wrong again.

His response is to claim that this is all a giant conspiracy against him and he’s really as pure as an unopened can of 10W40 motor oil.

His lawyer even said, “NASCAR is absolutely corrupted by power. …”

Which it may be. But it’s reeaall hard to believe that for some reason the big shots have decided to frame poor Jeremy … again and again.

I’m guessing he’ll never race again, nor should he. He needs to cash on his fading fame quickly and write a tell-all book tearfully confessing his addiction to the white powder.

Otherwise, you’ll never again hear the name Jeremy Methfield. Dammit, I mean Mayfield.