Less than two weeks after Bubba Wallace successfully campaigned to ban the confederate flag from all NASCAR events, a noose was found in his garage stall at the race in Talladega. NASCAR has subsequently announced an investigation, promising to identify the responsible parties and eliminate them from the sport.
Wallace, who is the circuit's only full-time Black driver, released a statement of his own, saying "This will not break me, I will not give in nor will I back down."