It's not exactly a major story, but we wouldn't be doing NASCAR Camping World Truck Series owner Billy Ballew justice without at least giving mention to the fact that a DUI charged against him has been dropped.As you'll probably remember, Ballew was nabbed inside Atlanta Motor Speedway's infield -- come to think of it, it wasn't a good weekend in that infield -- after an 'irate' off-duty police officer working track security stopped his vehicle after seeing a cocktail.
This week, the Henry County Sheriff's Office gave notice that the charge was 'dismissed administratively'.
Such a result wasn't too surprising after reading some of the facts presented in the original article from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Ballew refused a breathalyzer test on the scene, and the article never said if he had ever actually had a blood-alcohol content above the legal limt.
And if Ballew's word is the truth, the situation really only involved a open container infraction because the team owner said he "wasn't drunk" and had just "one drink" before driving his sponsor client from an outside-the-track condominium to a motor home in the infield of the track outside of Hampton, Ga.
Ballew's CWTS team often has Sprint Cup Series driver Kyle Busch behind the wheel, and on that Atlanta week in question, Busch took Ballew's No. 51 Toyota to victory lane on the Saturday following the Wednesday night incident.
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