Noting that the FBI is on the scene and investigating, Phelps declined to disclose how many surveillance cameras, if any, are in the Talladega garage and what, if any, footage they might have captured. Similarly, he declined to reveal the number of people who had access to the infield garage in general or the area of Wallace’s No. 43 stall, saying such details were part of the FBI’s investigative process.
seven-time Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson said after the display of support for Wallace. “Of course, we want justice, in a sense, we want to know why, and all those things. But until those answers are answered, we want to stand with our friend. We want to stand with Bubba.”
Some of the biggest names in racing and in other sports were stunned by the incident. It left Dale Earnhardt Jr. with one wish. “Hope Bubba wins it,” he tweeted early Monday morning. And Richard Petty, the NASCAR legend who runs the company for which Wallace drives, was in Talladega on Monday to show support for Wallace.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/06/21/nascar-investigating-heinous-act-after-noose-is-found-bubba-wallaces-stall/
I don't give a shit about modern Nascar, there's nothing about it that is racing stock cars.
But when this person who dropped a noose in the pit garage, pisses off Richard Petty and his team, that stupid son of a bitch has opened a can of worms to get on the wrong side of traditional nascar fans
When you get on the wrong side of Richard Petty, you got no support in this world of Nascar fans.
There never was a Noose. It was a bit of rope used to pull garage doors down. They have a loop at the end to grab and pull. But Nascar can just die and go away. They haven't raced stock cars since the 80s.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I remember reading a piece here about a black Nascar driver in the 60s (sorry, can't remember his name) who found some of the drivers would deliberately force him off the track. Other drivers bunched round him for protection. I believe Bill France helped him too.
ReplyDeleteWendell Scott, I've posted about him, but I can't find the best post where I did his story.... https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/01/wendell-scott.html because it takes forever to find one post in 43,000. Richard Pryor did a movie of his story. The epitome of perseverance in the worst of circumstances
DeleteNot a noose. A string, used to pull down the garage door, with a loop in it. It had been there for years, as have similar stings on every garage door in the facility.
ReplyDeleteLast week, the noose hysteria was over exercise bands with pvc handles, hanging in a park, often used by kids for swinging because the playgrounds were closed.
Before that, it was some rope that had been used to hoist some construction supplies.
Also- strings used to hold Japanese lanterns, and all sorts of other string and rope.
Well, so it's not a noose....
ReplyDeleteI just report the news, you know this, right? I don't go create it. I don't know what the hell it was, there were no online photos. But they called the FBI... so? I go with the story from a credible source that is as much as I can tell, unbiased and never click bait.
DeleteI'm glad it turned out to be a false alarm... but it was totally believable.
Deletehttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8454261/Bubba-Wallace-insists-rope-NASCAR-garage-straight-noose.html
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that someone wanted a loop at the end of the pull rope and decided to make it look like a noose because they thought it would look cool, not with any bad intent. I've seen some comments online saying that anybody would know that that was a different kind of knot, but most people aren't experts on different knots and loops.
It was a bad coincidence that Wallace was assigned that garage stall during this time of heightened tensions. Then someone on his crew and NASCAR overreacted by thinking it was aimed at Wallace before figuring out it was a garage door pull that had been there for months.
I was surprised to read that Wallace never saw the alleged noose. He was taking someone else's word for it. Hopefully all involved with this will remember as Freud put it, 'sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.'
DeleteMaybe it was a noose, only it was made by Danica Patrick's crew chief in a vain attempt to put himself out of his misery after another one of her trademark dismal performances on the track.
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