Was the NASCAR Noose a scam? (UPDATED-It WAS a scam)

As expected, it was a scam.  A fake.  A ripoff.  Totally bogus as it so typically is with cases like this.

In short, it never happened.

Unlike the bogus act NASCAR put on yesterday.

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One wonders.

To date, no pictures of the noose they claim to have found in Bubba Wallace's garage stall have been released.

In this video, from 2017, you'll see that at Talladega, most every garage stall has a "noose."



 In THIS video, shot a few days ago, is another example, both of the noose in the garages and other fake or mistaken incidents like this:

https://www.facebook.com/MarkDice/videos/289270715815856/?t=4



These are the same garage stalls used by all the race teams at all levels... truck, Xfinity and Monster Cup.

Listening yesterday, NASCAR's president, it was claimed, was the first to talk to Wallace after the discovery.  Was this another Rahm Emanuel instance of never letting a good crisis go to waste?  What, exactly, has Wallace been told about this and when?

See, as the resident cynic, I have to ask, given the multiple other episodes of racist activity that turn out to be, well, instances where the alleged victims were, in fact, the actual perpetrators... is that the case here?

Could that explain why NASCAR hasn't released any video of the entrances to the garage that would have clearly shown every person entering and leaving the garages?

It's not that NASCAR is all that smart, you understand, given, for example, how they screwed up the PR of Ryan Newman's near-death experience at Daytona earlier this year by refusing to let horrified onlookers and the TV audience know if  Newman was even still alive.

But NASCAR gained a great deal from this incident.  Tens of millions worth of earned media showing a sobbing Wallace and ALL of the drivers destroying the mask/social distancing rules as if they never existed.

Likely massive increases in TV ratings to go along with it and, of course, ratings equal cash.

And Wallace now has likely displaced Chase Elliot as THE most popular driver in NASCAR.  He still hasn't won anything in the big leagues to date, but I expect him to shortly as NASCAR continues its WWE meme because, as you know, wrestling is real.

Right?