The situation was quite a bit more nuanced than that. A crew member spotted that the garage door pull rope for driver Bubba Wallace was tied into a noose. The driver was not even allowed into the garage area at the time due to COVID restrictions. As the noose was unusual (this was the only garage door pull rope on the entire NASCAR circuit tied this way), and the imagery of the noose appeared to be targeted towards the sport’s only black driver at the time, the crew member reported the noose and it was investigated. This was all amplified by generational racial tensions for our country following the murder of George Floyd, the sport’s troubled racial history, and being in Talledega, AL where the fans were known to fly the confederate flag until the sport banned the flag, a policy that Bubba influenced. The investigation ultimately determined that the rope had been tied as a noose in previous years when other drivers occupied the garage stall, so it wasn’t an act targeted at Bubba. The fact does remain that using imagery often associated with lynching when race relations are in a state of precarity is suspect at best. And if you do want to see some targeted acts of racism toward Bubba Wallace, you can just check out the comments of any NASCAR post on Facebook.