The noose in the garage assigned to african american nascar driver bubba wallace in talladega turned out to be a pull rope for the door that was there before and not a hate crime the fbi has confirmed.
Garage door pull noose nascar.
But the fbi and nascar have finally admitted the noose claimed by bubba wallace was nothing more than a simple garage door rope tied in a loop and had been there since october 2019.
It took a lot longer than it should have.
And it created buckets more intentional controversy than it should have.
Nascar has released the first official image of the garage door pull rope fashioned into a noose style knot that was found in bubba wallace s garage at talladega superspeedway on sunday and said.
Only 11 of those ropes had knots in them and only one the one in the stall.
Though the fbi concluded that a noose found in driver bubba wallace s garage at talladega superspeedway was not a hate crime aimed at nascar s most prominent black driver official nascar videos.
Nascar officials said in a statement that the noose was actually a garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose and that photographic evidence showed it had been in the garage since as early as.
Nascar released a photo thursday of the garage door pull shaped like a noose it and the fbi investigated that was found in bubba wallace s garage stall at talladega superspeedway last weekend.
Reports that a noose had been found sunday in the garage of bubba wallace nascar s only black driver generated outrage but it apparently was a garage door pull rope and had been in the garage.
Exactly as we outlined.
After the noose was discovered nascar had all 29 tracks inspect the pull ropes in each of their 1 684 garage stalls.