DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Three days after a Kent County (Delaware) Family Court commissioner issued a protective order sought by Kurt Busch's ex-girlfriend Patricia Driscoll against the NASCAR driver, Busch's legal team filed a motion to reopen the hearing and delay the scheduled release Friday of the commissioner's conclusions on why he found that Busch had committed acts of domestic violence against Driscoll.
Busch's attorneys filed the motion Thursday with new evidence that alleges that Driscoll did not tell the truth when testifying about the alleged Sept. 26 attack at Dover International Speedway. Busch continues to allege that Driscoll was out to ruin him and intimidated witnesses, an allegation that Busch's attorney Rusty Hardin made in a statement Thursday. Hardin has asked this latest allegation to be investigated by the Delaware attorney general.
"This evidence bares Ms. Driscoll's motives to ruin and seek revenge on a person in whom she had invested so much and who no longer wanted to be involved with her," the motion states.
Scheduled to race Sunday in the Daytona 500, Busch said he was focused on racing and declined to comment on the case Wednesday when he arrived at Daytona International Speedway for practice. NASCAR has not taken any action against the Stewart-Haas Racing driver, instead waiting for the commissioner's disposition with his findings and conclusions as well as whether prosecutors will charge the 2004 Sprint Cup champion for the alleged assault. In issuing his order Monday, commissioner David W. Jones wrote that he plans to file his findings and conclusions by Friday.
In an altercation that allegedly occurred a week after the couple had broken up, Driscoll claims that Busch put her hands on her neck and smashed her head against his motorhome wall three times. Busch claims that Driscoll came to his motorhome uninvited and that he cupped her cheeks in his hands as he told her repeatedly to leave.
"You just can't believe that someone that you love and you've spent four years with could hurt you like this," Driscoll said Thursday on "Good Morning America."
"I pushed his hands away, and I ran out of there."
The evidence filed Thursday by Hardin includes phone interviews with three people who knew the couple -- a marketing executive as well as the widow and a son of Bill Young, who spent 43 years in Congress until his death in 2013. Driscoll considers Young's widow, Beverly, as her mother but they are not biologically related, according to the court filing. The filing says that Beverly Young would testify that she did not see any bruising on Driscoll the day after the alleged altercation. It also says that Young believes Driscoll is some sort of secret agent. It was during the family court hearing that Busch alleged that Driscoll is a trained assassin.
"I heard some of the most ridiculous accusations in the four days of testimony," Driscoll said on GMA. "I can't even describe to you how hard to sit there to listen to these lies being told about you."
Driscoll also is scheduled to appear on other networks Friday.
"Ms. Driscoll's frantic media onslaught of the last 48 hours at a time Mr. Busch is scheduled to drive in the most important NASCAR race of the year is further evidence that this is not about domestic violence, but instead about ruining the career and reputation of the man who left her," Hardin said in a statement.