The FBI has determined that NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace was not a victim of a hate crime.
According to investigators, the rope was a rope that was used to pulled down a garage door and had been in the stall at Talladega since last fall.
Here are details from ESPN:
The FBI has determined that NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace was not the victim of a hate crime and that a pull rope fashioned like a noose had been on a garage door at Talladega Superspeedway since as early as last fall, NASCAR said Tuesday.
“The FBI report concludes, and photographic evidence confirms, that the garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose had been positioned there since as early as last fall,” NASCAR said in its statement.