A noose was found in the garage stall of Black driver Bubba Wallace at the NASCAR race in Alabama on Sunday, less than two weeks after he successfully pushed the stock car racing series to ban the Confederate flag at its tracks and facilities.
The next day, Wallace’s fellow racers rallied behind him at Monday’s show at the Geico 500 in Talladega. The fellow drivers pushed Wallace’s car across the finish line before he tearfully emerged from his vehicle.
82-year-old team owner Richard Petty was also present. NASCAR said it had launched an immediate investigation and will do everything possible to find out who was responsible and “eliminate them from the sport.” “We are angry and outraged, and cannot state strongly enough how seriously we
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