A youtube video from 2019 showed a pull rope featuring a noose circled hanging from the garage door in the same stall used by wallace and his team at talladega earlier this week.
Garage door pull cord noose.
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.
Nascar s statement about the incident adds a lot more color noting that the noose was actually a garage door pull rope that was fashioned in a loop.
After a short investigation into reports of a noose found in the garage of nascar s lone black full time driver the fbi has determined that what was at first believed to be a noose was actually a pull rope.
It took a lot longer than it should have.
The decision to tie the rope that way during a.
Youtuber and podcaster mark dice produced a video that includes official nascar imagery showing a rope with a small noose like lop at the end that is used to pull down garage doors.
The fbi learned that garage number 4 where the noose was found.
And it created buckets more intentional controversy than it should have.
The noose turned out to be a garage door pull down rope.
The fbi said in a statement.
Many are asking why nascar made the announcement before doing any investigating.
Nascar officials say what appeared to be a noose in bubba wallace s garage was a garage door pull made of rope and not an intentional racist act.
He said he hadn t seen the.
Noose found in bubba wallace s nascar garage was there since last year wallace noted to lemon that both the fbi and nascar have been calling the door pull a noose.
Exactly as we outlined.
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.