You can take a driver steroids make the car drive any faster as a result? Ron Hornaday recently admitted to taking a steroid cream prescribed by a doctor to treat a medical condition and the complaint was on average because. Unlike football or baseball, where athletes can take stimulators, NASCAR only need to deal with drivers who take drugs that affect a danger to themselves and other drivers on the track. Although many critics, NASCARs new anti-doping policy is the best in sport. There are times when it is appropriate to take some medication, but each drug can be abused, even something as over the counter cough syrup.