"He's leaving the legal wrangling to his lawyers, and he's focusing on attempting to get set up to race if he can," Buric said.

Buric said he was unsure if Mayfield could get an entry ready for Chicago this weekend: "He obviously has trouble with his own group as the result of his delay in keeping his folks employed. It's not easy… He made a good valiant effort last weekend that didn't pan out."

NASCAR's assertion that Mayfield's failure to show in Daytona last weekend proved he didn't need emergency relief was "ridiculous," Buric said.

"It's ludicrous to suggest that because Jeremy wasn't there racing, it wasn't an emergency," Buric said. "The emergency was getting him the ability to be able to race. The fact that the judge said (he) can, the judge didn't give him money and say, 'Here's money to go get your team ready.' "