NASCAR on Thursday releases a photo of the noose found in Bubba Wallace's garage Sunday, two days after the FBI concluded Wallace was not a victim of a hate crime.
Phelps said that after the discovery Sunday of the noose the garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, officials asked every racetrack to walk through their respective garages.
"Across the 1,684 garage stalls at 29 tracks, NASCAR found only 11 total that had a pull-down rope tied in a knot and only one noose — the one discovered Sunday in the No. 43 garage stall," Phelps said. The FBI investigation determined that the noose had been in Cup Series garage stall No. 4 — which had been assigned to the Petty No. 43 team last weekend — since at least last October and that no federal charges would be pursued, Phelps said."Bubba Wallace has done nothing but represent this sport with courage, class and dignity," Phelps said.
He said that some people were wrongly suggesting that he was the person who found and reported the noose, when in fact that was not the case. He also emphasized that the rope was fashioned like a noose. The image of it"makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up," he said.The noose was found less than two weeks after, saying it was"contrary to our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all fans, our competitors and our industry.
Wallace had called for the policy change. He drove a car with a Black Lives Matter message in the race after the ban.
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