NASCAR vows to continue investigation into noose at Talladega after FBI closes its case
The FBI announced Tuesday afternoon its investigators concluded that the noose found in Bubba Wallace and the No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports team's garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday was not a federal crime. Its investigation determined that the noose had been in the garage stall since at least October 2019, when the NASCAR Cup Series last race at the Alabama track prior to Monday's GEICO 500.
On a conference call with reporters Tuesday evening, NASCAR president Steve Phelps said the FBI "definitively" determining someone did not commit a hate crime against Wallace was "the best result we could hope for." But he also said the governing body is continuing its own investigation to figure out how and why a rope in the garage was made into a noose.
"Everyone's belief was that someone was attacking a member of our family," Phelps said. "It turned out that that was not the case, but at the time, that's what our industry thought.
"We are continuing our portion of the investigation to try to determine why there was a rope fashioned into a noose, which obviously happened sometime last October or before."
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