NASCAR released a photo of the garage pull-down rope fashioned as a noose that was found hanging in Bubba Wallace's garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday.
A Richard Petty Motorsports crewman noticed the noose and informed crew chief Jerry Baxter, who notified security. A photo was taken of the noose before it was cut down, and NASCAR contacted the FBI, who also viewed the picture.
The Associated Press's Jenna Fryer reports, "every single entity that viewed evidence—no other pull in any other stall had one like that—and ALL believed it was a noose."
Following its investigation, the FBI announced Tuesday that the noose found in Wallace's garage was there as early as October 2019 and the driver was not the target of a hate crime.