As far as I can tell, the article doesn’t explain what the rope was doing there in the first place. Was it actually a “noose,” or a rope whose presence could be explained apart from it being some kind of racial threat?
From pics etc it was to let garage door down/up?
It was a rope used to pull down a garage door.
The Wood Brothers Racing team said one of its employees informed the team he recalled “seeing a tied handle in the garage pull down rope from last fall,” when NASCAR raced at Talladega in October. The team said it immediately alerted NASCAR and assisted the investigation.