We remain steadfast in our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all who love racing. “All in all, we won today,” Wallace said. "I was relieved just like many others to know that it wasn't targeted towards me," Wallace said on the show Wednesday. “We simply had a tiny knot at the bottom of it to pull.
NASCAR released a photo of the noose found in Bubba Wallace's garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway. He drove a car with a Black Lives Matter message in the race after the ban. 4 — which had been assigned to the Petty No. NASCAR officials released a photo Thursday of the rope fashioned like a noose hanging in the garage stall of Black driver Bubba Wallace. 43 team and driver Bubba Wallace at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday. NASCAR needs to respond to these photos suggesting the Bubba Wallace ‘noose’ was really just a rope used to close the garage door Posted at 11:14 am on June 23, 2020 by Greg P. "Wallace had called for the policy change. "This was obviously well before the 43 team's arrival and garage assignment," NASCAR said in its own statement Tuesday, referring to the number of Wallace's car. The image of it "makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up," he said.Janelle Griffith is a breaking news reporter for NBC News. ""What we saw was a symbol of hate and was only present in one area of the garage and that was of the 43 car of Bubba Wallace," he said Thursday.NASCAR President Steve Phelps said Thursday,"As you can see from the photo, the noose was real, as was our concern for Bubba. "Our ultimate conclusion for this investigation is to ensure that this never happens again, that no one walks by a noose without recognizing the potential damage it can do," Phelps said. Though the FBI concluded that a noose found in driver Bubba Wallace’s garage at Talladega Superspeedway was not a hate crime aimed at … The only one fashioned in a noose was the one discovered Sunday, Phelps said.He said that Wallace and the 43 team had nothing to do with it.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. 43 team last weekend — since at least last October and that no federal charges would be pursued, Phelps said.Phelps said upon learning of and seeing the noose, NASCAR's initial reaction "was to protect our driver.Phelps said that after the discovery Sunday of the noose in the garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, officials asked every racetrack to walk through their respective garages.Out of the 1,684 garage stalls at 29 tracks, only 11 had a pull-down rope tied in a knot. A … "It is offensive seeing anyone suggest otherwise and frankly, it is further evidence of how far we still need to go as a society. "Wallace had called for the policy change.
""Bubba Wallace has done nothing but represent this sport with courage, class and dignity," Phelps said.
And he stood tall for what he believes in. "Our ultimate conclusion for this investigation is to ensure that this never happens again, that no one walks by a noose without recognizing the potential damage it can do," Phelps said. Bubba has done nothing but represent this sport with courage, class and dignity.
"We appreciate the FBI's quick and thorough investigation and are thankful to learn that this was not an intentional, racist act against Bubba. "Upon learning of seeing the noose, our initial reaction was to protect our driver.
“As you can see from the photo, the noose was real as was our concern for Bubba.”“We’ve had a lot of garages growing up, racing out of that,” Wallace said. (1:00)Phelps said NASCAR determined that the noose wasn't in the garage prior to the October 2019 race weekend, but it was unable to determine "with any certainty who tied this rope in this manner, or why it was done.The Wood Brothers Racing team was in the same stall during the October race and it cooperated with the investigation.