The investigation into a crew member’s discovery of a rope tied into a noose in Bubba Wallace’s garage stall reached an unexpected outcome on Tuesday when the FBI and the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama said they found that the noose had been in Wallace’s garage stall since NASCAR last visited Talladega Superspeedway in October of 2019 and no federal charges would be filed.
It was, according to NASCAR president Steve Phelps, “the best result we could hope for” as the sanctioning body feared that the noose could have been put in Wallace’s stall by someone with nefarious intentions inside the industry.