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.
[[Wallace should be kicked out of NASCAR and charged with a “hate crime”. But, you can bet he won’t get any kind of penalty,]]
IF he is involved then i agree- but they don’t kick black people out of anything- they only kick 1/2 white 1/2 japanese out for using the “N” word in what he thought was a private channel to his crew team- that turned out to be heard by everyone watching iracing race-
Over half of this nation is thin skinned, stupid and beyond help.
This is what makes news with that kind of idiot citizenry.
nascar has been loosing attendence...
they might want to KEEP the national media money to survive...
because look at some of the NFL and MLB and even the NBA games....many empty seats...
nascar has gotten good at covering up thousands of empty seats to make it look like their "popular"....
also bubba should get out in the sun...he seems a bit more white than black....
Definitely!
Topple all the cars in those garages... Then topple the garages!
Charge the entire France family with hate crimes...
Permanently close down all Chevrolet, Ford, Dodge, and Toyota production plants and sales locations for being accomplices in these horrific hate crimes...
Topple all cars on the highways and byways manufactured or sold from these hateful plants...
IAC, stay calm and empty your personal bank accounts to give BLM reparations...
Does this guy Bubba ever win any races? I never heard of him. Of course, I never heard of Colin Kapernak either.
i don’t know- i don’t follow him- I’ve never seen him win one- but i don’t watch a lot of races now- Nascar is reallyu beginning to stink with all their ruels regulations, race changes, kneeling, dropping support for 2n’t amendment rights groups etc etc etc-
As Tony Montana would say......”Ban that POS manny” Bubba turned out to be a lying POS.
I got a bridge to sell anyone who thinks this noose thing is real.
Nice bridge, needs some paint and a couple of new pillars.
Will sell cheap.
All I want to know is did all the whiteys at Talladega get in line to shine and then lick Bubba’s shoes??
My one ironic theory.
They are closing up shop. Some guy, maybe a white guy who isn’t well known, or who had a confederate flag until recently, but is cool with everything, pulls the garage shut.
While doing so, the rope breaks. He shrugs, throws the broken rope into the garage, and pulls the door shut.
The next day, he comes in and everybody is talking about the racist skum who put a noose on the car, and how they will be banned for life, and probably never work again.
And he knows if he says what happened, they won’t believe him, they will assume he was just some racist white guy.
So he shuts up, goes along, and hopes there is no actual video of what happened outside the door.
Leftist Media dont care about Facts.
Funny thing is : Once the Sane People in this country have had enough, so many of these fake-journalist Betrayers will ‘get the noose’ themselves — IF the angry mobs dont simply beat them to death first.
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BOYCOTT LEFTIST MEDIA To Save Them From Their Own Arrogance and Stupidity.
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NASCAR Smollett!
Can’t wait until Gas Monkey Garage is forced to change their name.
(.....somebody had to say it !)
Leni
I have been watching these things since Tawana Brawley.
They have, 100%, been false. Not 99%, 100%.
“And twist ties! Don’t forget the twist ties!!!”
And String Theory. They’ll have to come up with a less offensive model of the universe.
Judging by the pictures, the two knots are certainly different. The “normal” pulldown loop on bay 5 and the other garage doors is a simple knot, possibly a bowline, and has no resemblance to a “noose” beyond creating a loop. The knot on bay 4 looks like a “hangman’s knot”, or possibly a “bimini twist”. It’s quite possible someone tied the pulldown loop to look like a hangman’s noose, but it obviously was there for quite some time, and not targeted at Wallace. They are making a mountain out of a molehill.
no you miss the point, think it over.
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