Posted on 06/23/2020 10:11:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When NASCAR rolled in to Alabama and the Talledega motor speedway, the story of a “rope noose” in the garage of Bubba Wallace grabbed media attention. However, a NASCAR video of the exact garage doors at the Talledega motor speedway shows all of the garages have ropes and nooses on them.
The images above are from a 2017 NASCAR “GarageCam” walk through during the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series garage at Talladega Superspeedway. The rope with a “noose” on the end is a simple method to pull down the garage door to close it. The noose provides a place to put your hand/wrist when closing the door.
Hat Tip Tazio Nuvolari who shares: “My guess on the “noose” incident in Talledega, watch this video, look close at the Talladega garage doors. Each one has a rope hanging down with a loop on the end to pull down the doors. One probably broke and someone just tossed it aside, then the crew member found it and thought it was something it wasn’t, now NASCAR is trying to figure out how to explain their stupidity.”
The ropes and “nooses” are clearly visible [particularly at 03:20] as the cameraman goes from garage bay to garage bay. There are several rope nooses visible and a few of them are severely worn from use. Check it out:
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Is this just a simple misunderstanding amid a climate where NASCAR is sensitive to the current racial narrative sweeping the nation?
Did the Bubba Wallace team accidentally make a major headline grabbing story out of a simple mistaken perspective? Or was the mistaken impression purposefully misunderstood by either the team or the organization to gain attention? You decide.
According to the media:
ALABAMA – […] The discovery of the noose Sunday afternoon in Wallace’s garage stall comes as the United States, and NASCAR in particular, more squarely address America’s systemic racism in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd.
Wallace, the only Black driver in NASCAR’s top circuit, has been an outspoken advocate of the Black Lives Matter movement and the corresponding protests against racism and police brutality. He wore an “I Can’t Breathe” shirt before one event, repainted his car with the “Black Lives Matter” phrase and pushed NASCAR to ban the Confederate flag.
NASCAR said it is investigating the noose, and federal investigators said they will review the incident as well.
“We are angry and outraged, and cannot state strongly enough how seriously we take this heinous act,” NASCAR’s statement read. “We have launched an immediate investigation, and will do everything we can to identify the person(s) responsible and eliminate them from the sport.”
The racing organization said there is no place for racism in NASCAR and that the incident “only strengthens our resolve to make the sport open and welcoming to all.”
In addition, the US Attorney’s office for the Northern District of Alabama, FBI and the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division are reviewing the incident, US Attorney Jay E. Town said in statement.
“Regardless of whether federal charges can be brought, this type of action has no place in our society,” Town said.
A source with Richard Petty Motorsports told CNN that Wallace never saw the noose. A member of his team discovered it and immediately brought it to NASCAR’s attention, the source said.
Wallace tweeted Sunday that the “despicable act” left him “incredibly saddened and serves as a painful reminder of how much further we have to go as a society and how persistent we must be in the fight against racism.”
“This will not break me, I will not give in nor will I back down. I will continue to proudly stand for what I believe in,” Wallace said. (read more)
The odds that almost every garage door in the Talladega motor speedway has these garage door pull-downs that look like nooses, and this was not exactly what the “member of the team discovered”, is very small. These are the exact garages that housed Bubba Wallace’s car.
These pull-downs are almost certainly what Wallace’s team reported to the NASCAR officials that started this international headline story. [A Shorter Video to SEE]
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MAJOR UPDATE: We were finally able to locate a picture of Bubba Watson’s garage door. The picture below was taken Monday, June 22, 2020 while FBI investigators were reviewing the incident. The source of the picture is HERE: Racing News.
TALLADEGA, ALABAMA – The #43 Victory Junction Chevrolet, driven by Bubba Wallace (not pictured), waits in the garage area prior to the NASCAR Cup Series GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on June 22, 2020 in Talladega, Alabama. (Getty Images)
Now here’s the same picture with some important notations. Look at the manual garage door pull-down rope on bay #4. Notice how short it is compared to the adjacent bay #5.
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We have a video from November 2019 at Talladega speedway showing the garage door pull-down for bay #4. Many of the garage bay doors have those “noose” looking pull-downs to make it easier to use your hand. Clearest visibility of Bay #4 at 00:53
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You can clearly see in the video that Garage Bay door #4 had a hand loop tied into it.
That hand-loop, which could be claimed as a noose if that’s what you are predisposed to be looking for, was there in November of 2019 when the video was taken. That hand loop, possibly misconstrued as a “noose” has been cut-off in the picture taken yesterday.
It wasn’t a noose, it was a hand loop to help make closing the garage door easier; and it wasn’t put there for Bubba Wallace, because it was there in November 2019.
Additionally, in November of 2019 no-one would know what garage bay would be assigned to Bubba Wallace in June of 2020. It’s absolutely ridiculous to see this as targeted hate.
That’s it.
100% proof positive evidence of the situation.
Now, the questions remain:
(1) Was this incident purposefully misconstrued as a “hanging noose” to drum up racial controversy by Bubba Wallace’s NASCAR team?
(2) And was that intentional mistake made exponentially worse, purposefully, by NASCAR going public and orchestrating a ridiculous PR campaign around it?
(3) Were all those involved pulling off a demonstrable hoax in an effort to politicize and capitalize on a controversy? With full forethought and selfish intent?
(4) Or was this some big, stupid, oversensitive misunderstanding?
You decide.
It will be interesting to see how NASCAR responds; but the clarity of the situation is beyond debate. This “noose in a NASCAR garage” story was false. This was not targeted racial hate toward Bubba Wallace; and it wasn’t even a noose in a NASCAR garage.
NASCAR is saying it wasn’t a hoax...It isn’t the door rope...That a real noose was hanging in the garage area...
OK....With as many people today that have cell phones with cameras, please show us a picture of the REAL noose found...
Or are you saying that NO ONE took a photo of it???
Wow, my garge doors have loop habging down and mine are in the middle of the bottom part of the doors. Why am I beingbtargeted? I’m an elderly white mann ...
Good one!
And here I am thinking that brainless france had dealt a deathblow to nutscar with his stupidity. brainless was just the start of STUPID. Now bubba has done the final death roll to what Big Bill France started and left to the kids trusting that they would do the right thing. And take nutscar to the TOP !!! So much for that plan...
Not only has “bubba” made a fool of himself but ALL the other Drivers in nutscar as well, IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE WORLD.
I hope you are happy with yourself “bubba” !!! you aren’t even going to get hired to drive a Taxi because YOU “bubba” drew the last race card from your deck of cards while trying to blame “racist whitey” !!!
I HOPE you ARE HAPPY NOW, you RACIST...
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Additionally, the pull in the other garage bay, had the loop untied...we can still see some bends/kinks in the rope.
Now, why would someone undo the knot of the "noose" loop in the adjacent garage?
Being cut lends credence to the “actual hate crime” crowd; someone cut it, and hung it in the building.
I don’t know why people are so excited about this discovery. All you have done is identified the likely source of the rope/noose. You have not at all shown that someone didn’t cut that rope, carry it into the garage, and hang it over his car.
Now, what if it was somebody who thought it would be a laugh? They’d show up in the morning, Bubba would see it, he’d freak out, and then his friend would say “Gotcha”, and explain how he took the rope from the door.
But then, some other crew member went in and saw it first, reported it to NASCAR< and now whoever was playing the joke is scared to death to lose his job, and get branded a racist. It got away from him (or her). Heck, the person could be black, and so could have assumed there would be no repercusions, and now they don’t want to be another Jessie Smollets.
A hoaxer is much more likely to cut the rope. Why? Odds are, such a person would probably be far less likely to know how to tie a "noose" knot. So cutting a "pre-made" one is the quickest way to the hoax.
An actual racist hater who thinks about "nooses" and be predisposed to something like this, would much more likely know how to tie one, take the few minutes to tie one.
You will have to ask Ross Chastain about anything related to Watermelons.
What is the date of your picture?
Never mind, I see the date in the original post.
It's from the OP.
If one spends the entire day(s) repeating the same task could become boring so they changed up the knot... just to be different.
Now of course we know they were all idiots, and the rope wasn’t actually cut when it was found, it was cut later, and the ‘finder’ actually believed someone had tied a noose into their garage door rope-pull, AND NASCAR went along with it, instead of starting with “hey, lets not jump to conclusions, let’s see if this was just a loop.”
Note: whoever made the loop for that door DID make it a noose; something I might have done when I was younger, although nowadays I think I’d be smart enough to be scared of getting cancelled , and use a simpler knot.
Yes, jumping on racism is just knee-jerk. Even if someone did tie a hangman’s knot, there’s no reason to jump on the racism explanation with no facts to back it up.
So who reported it in as a noose ?!
Correct
The big investigation showed that THE NOOSE was there since last October. A 2 year old could’ve figured out it was from the door pull and no where near the size of an actual noose.
Been a fan since Dale Sr. in 1993...DONE.
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