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 reviewed by The Post show multiple nooses being used as garage door pulls at the same racetrack in 2017 — and at least one in 2019.
But Wallace maintains he has never seen a race car garage rope tied into a noose in all his years of racing.
“I’ve been racing since I was 9 years old; I’m 26 now, I’ll be 27 this year, and I’ve never seen a garage pull like that,” Wallace told ESPN on Wednesday. “It makes me want to drive over to my mom’s house where we used to race out of our garage and show a garage pull.”
Following the FBI’s ruling, NASCAR president Steve Phelps held a conference call with reporters Tuesday and did not address how seemingly no one suggested the loop may have simply been placed there to be used as a garage rope rather than a symbol of hate.
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