2020 NASCAR Thread

So does that mean the Chris McDonald troll was right?

 

And if someone knew it was there, and knowing the social situation, why not fix it ... if a fix was available.

 

Yeah, and nobody from the 43 team would have seen it until they arrived Sunday morning. I believe drivers aren’t even allowed in the garage area.

Petty team members arrive Sunday morning on a charter flight at the Talladega airfield next door to the track, get to their new-to-them assigned garage stall after screening, do their thing to get the car prepped, and at some point … I dunno, maybe one of the guys goes to pull the garage door down with the car inside after the rainout, looks at the pull rope and has an understandable reaction.

 

Quoting myself!
"Facebook trolls aside, I do hope that this doesn't turn out to be someone randomly tying a loop for a handle in the door rope and people mistaking it for a noose.
It would be a lot worse than the time one of our schools had to go full lockdown because a janitor mistook a kid's science project for a pipe bomb and called 911."


And now NASCAR looks like a bunch of primates fuckin' a football.

 

So how does this stall get assigned to the only black competitor? What is the assignment process? Random draw? Is it based on points standings?

 

This is a very good point. It may have been a “long con” executed by NACAR management itself.

 

I realize in-person press conferences aren't really happening during this pandemic, but how do you not have a virtual one where reporters ask questions?

NASCAR released a brief statement and then had Steve Phelps speak for five minutes and provide absolutely nothing of consequence.

 

People used to do the same things with rope on garage doors on private residences before the automatic openers became mass market items. Easy to see a longer piece of rope tied into a loop - which could end up looking like a noose from the right/wrong angle - not only to keep people from tripping a long piece of rope or fraying from being repeated stepped on, but also to have a little more leverage to pull the garage door down and not tear open your hand(s) pulling down on a coarse piece of rope.

 

The Trumpandemic is giving cover to NASCAR and Trump's FBI. Very convenient.
I keep getting back to my previous question: How did the circuit's only black driver wind up in the area with the noose? Now that they're under a national glare, one from which they appeared to benefit with yesterday's pre-race events, they have an obligation to explain to the layman how these things are determined. Don't they?

 

I will say when I heard "a noose" was found in the garage stall - I imagined a unattached rope, tied like a noose set in a conspicuous place. A rope that has an obvious function tied that way, should have been given more play in the story.

 

It is also perfectly logical that you would not have automatic door openers at race tracks - simple pulley system is fine.

However, one would think that drivers and crew members would be familiar with such a system, especially at popular tracks they visit twice a year like Talladega.

They'd know that there is a pull rope attached to the garage door and that it might have a loop or handle.

Yet someone still reacted to the point where this all unfolded. Clearly it didn't look like an ordinary pull rope. NASCAR owes its community a full, detailed explanation as to how this incident transpired.

 

Similarly, I pictured a rope tied into a noose thrown on top of the car. The B/R tweet stated the noose was hanging, which I missed.

I heard on the radio that Wallace was told of the noose, but didn't see it. I don't understand how nobody on the team would have looked at it or been told of its description and mentioned it was a pull rope or wasn't out of place.

I don't have a strong feeling either way. It could be a string of people misconstruing something. All that bothers me is the crowing of Clay Travis tomorrow.