June 22 (Reuters) - NASCAR has stepped up security around Bubba Wallace for the rain-delayed Geico 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on Monday after a noose was found in the driver's garage.
The only Black driver in NASCAR’s top series and a vocal supporter of Black Lives Matter, Wallace was the target of a racial attack on Sunday when a noose, a symbol connected to lynching and America’s slave history, was left in his team stall.
“We are going to use every effort we can to determine who has done this, whether it’s a single person or multiple people,” Phelps said during a conference call on Monday. Wallace was also one of the loudest voices in the push to have NASCAR remove the Confederate flag from its tracks. In the wake of the nationwide protests against racism, NASCAR announced earlier this month that Confederate flags would be prohibited from all events and properties.
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