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.
And supposedly they only found this Sunday afternoon? And then went national with it Sunday evening, without any sort of investigation?
Yeah, it will be interesting to see how they attempt to weasel out of this.
Unbestinkinglievable.
I think it was after the rain delay
So this means everyone had been in that garage and knew there was a noose rope pull prior to the rain delay
presumably Wallace goes into the garage.
Certainly, they were in that facility even before race day getting the car ready
How did they pull the rope down if it had been cut days before?
Whole story stinks
The sniveling, whining, kneeling black pampers of the MFL are expanding to ruin other sports.
The search engine is poo. You can typically work around its poor functionality by searching for a single unique word in the title, say Bubba or Talladega. Putting in a whole title is almost always going to fail.
Same thing with cops. 99+% of cops do their job bravely and honorably. The occasional bad apple results in blacks condemning ALL cops. Let's play role reversal. When whites see blacks committing robberies and murders, and whites then have a view about blacks in general, blacks say that it is racism to believe that. One shouldn't condemn an entire race for the actions of a few. Well, that goes for whites as well. Blacks need to stop blaming all whites as being racists. The vast/overwhelming majority of whites are not racists.
Try it. Say those three sentences and count one one-thousand, two one-thousand, three one-thousand.
Three seconds and all this hysteria could've been avoided. I guess nobody wanted to risk making Bubba Wallace look like a moron. 'Cause that would be racist.
I hate to throw cold water on the celebration, but I don’t think this is over yet. As we can see the noose most likely came from Bubba’s stall. Things we don’t know: Who found it, was it cut or rotted, where was it found. I’ve read where it was found on a bench or in his car.If it was found in either of those two places, Bubba and Nascar will just claim it was cut off and thrown there to intimadate Bubba.
bubba wallace in tears
over what is going to end up being a garage pull “noose” that he had seen many times before
https://www.fox8tv.com/newspost/bubba-wallace-gets-emotional/
A “correct” search returns the desired results? I’m guessing.
that is why I tell posters to pick ONE word
in this case
Noose
when they search
Nascar explaining its stupidity? LOLOL
Someone needs to send Bubba into the SAFER barrier next race.
Sad that it has been reduced such crap and they wonder where the fans went. Out in the streets protesting and tearing down statues, just like Nascar is tearing down societal walls that separate us. Yeah, right.
Nascar explaining its stupidity? LOLOL
Someone needs to send Bubba into the SAFER barrier next race.
Sad that it has been reduced such crap and they wonder where the fans went. Out in the streets protesting and tearing down statues, just like Nascar is tearing down societal walls that separate us. Yeah, right.
what they cant get away from is the video of the perp doing it
they will have to have a fall guy to escape this embarassment
No one is going to believe there was no video
There is an alternative that is possible
Somebody wanted the ability to access that car and so they concocted this scheme knowing Nascar would have to allow them to inspect and touch it etc. A cheat scandal.
We will have to see who the fall guy is.
Sadly though- NASCAR is also blaming every white person of racism right along with blm supporters-
turn yourself into the local police sir- they might let you go back home with an ankle bracelet-
This is the most plausible explanation yet. The fact that nobody has produced a photo or video of this noose discovery tells me that we’ve now entered the cover-story part of this fairy tale.
Did he find some bleach in the bathroom that he’s pretty sure some white guy in a maga hat was gonna pour on him... victim!
NASCAR wanted this to be a noose
Has anyone caught the super ninja who disabled all the @NASCAR cameras and left that noose in Bubba Wallace’s garage yet? We should recruit this person to infiltrate Chinese nuclear facilities and take them out.
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) June 23, 2020
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