>>Well that’s a lie. I just saw a video yesterday showing several garage doors with these same knotted loops tied to the bottom.<<
In the interest of being fair, which Bubba and this asshole wouldn’t be to us, this is probably the video you are referring to...
There are a lot of loops tied in the pull down ropes, but, that video is from 2017 and the Talladega garages were torn down and completely rebuilt, the race last October, where were see the loop, was the first one with the new garages.
There are like 40 garage stalls there so I doubt this guy went to all of them. I did find a video of the garage area from the race last October, it’s the same one where that photo of the loop is from, and I didn’t see any other garages with a loop in the rope, however I couldn’t see most of the pull down ropes so can’t say with certainty.
One thing NASCAR does is before every race they film a walk through of the garages, so I watched several of them from other tracks to see how common this is. The thing is though. there are different designs at different tracks. Not many have the single doors like Talladega. Many have big double doors with heavy pull down straps, some just have tarps they close up with.
One track that does have the one car doors with similar design is Charlotte, and you can see in this video several garages have a loop tied in the pull down rope, so it is a common thing to do which makes Bubba a liar since he said he and his crew have never seen these anywhere before.
https://youtu.be/lN0ad_nS2Hw
That's not the video I saw. I'll try to find the one I saw.
Yup. Too many examples to say this is intended as a political statement of some sort. Nobody made an issue of it before because they aren't sensitive to perceived racial sleights.