Wallace discovered the door pull rope in his garage earlier, which he and his team rushed to perceive as a hate crime against the driver, prompting the FBI to launch an investigation into the matter.
Bubba Wallace, the only full-time black driver in NASCAR, says he is relieved to know that the suspected noose left in his garage was not targeted at him, and acknowledges feeling “a little embarrassment” over the fuss they’ve made out of it.
He also thanked his team and the FBI for treating it “as a real threat”.
Earlier on Tuesday, however, Wallace told “CNN Tonight” that he, 26, had “raced out of hundreds of garages” and therefore was certain it was not a garage pull but a “straight-up noose”.
However, images have emerged on social media showing that, in fact, many Talladega Garage doors had ropes with loops on them, with users mocking Wallace either for lying or for his ignorance.
The FBI stated earlier, based on photographic evidence, that the rope, “fashioned like a noose”, had been in that garage as early as last autumn.
Wallace has drawn nationwide attention lately after he called for NASCAR to ban the display of Confederate flags at events and wore a T-shirt bearing the words “I Can’t Breathe/Black Lives Matter” in the wake of the anti-racism protests in the US following the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd.
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