The rope with a noose on the end is a simple method to pull down the garage door to close it.
Garage door pull down rope nascar.
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.
Nascar said in a statement that the fbi report concluded and photographic evidence confirmed that the garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose had been positioned there since as early as last fall.
The manual garage door rope on stall 4 was tied into a hand loop by the team of ryan blaney sometime after the october 2019 talladega qualifier and before the start of the main race.
The fbi has determined that nascar driver bubba wallace was not the victim of a hate crime and that a pull rope fashioned like a noose had been on a garage door at talladega superspeedway since as.
The noose turned out to be a garage door pull down rope.
Look no further than the empty stands for the answer.
My guess on the noose incident in talledega watch this video look close at the talladega garage doors.
Nascar released its own statement referring to the noose as a garage door pull rope and accepted the fbi s finding that this was not an intentional racist act.
The stands have been empty for years ever since nascar changed its own rules to make every stock car driver equal.
All nascar garage doors have them.
The noose provides a place to put your hand wrist when closing the door.
Hat tip tazio nuvolari who shares.
It just makes it easier to pull the door down.
6 and finally here s the side by side that shows the manual garage door pull hand loop in place nov 19 and the hand loop purposefully identified as a noose missing or cut off june 22 2020.
There are numerous ropes on several garage bay doors that are tied to make similar loops at the bottom.
Wood brothers racing the team representing menard released a statement that one of its employees recalled seeing the same pull down rope in the same garage last fall.