Did they investigate the circumstances of it being assigned to Wallace? Did they investigate why the rope was fashioned like a noose?
Yes and yes.
Before each race, NASCAR assigns garage stalls based on the current season point standings, with the leader getting the most desirable — typically the one closest to the track entrance, for easy access on and off during frenzied practice sessions, the number of which varies from track to track. The second-place team gets the next stall, the third-place team gets the next stall and so on.
Wallace was 20th in the standings entering the race at Talladega, so normally he would have been assigned the stall 19 spots down from points leader Kevin Harvick.
But under novel
coronavirus protocols, NASCAR groups multicar teams together to limit social interaction in the garage.
At Talladega, the preferred stall went to Harvick as the points leader, and his three Stewart-Haas teammates (Clint Bowyer, Aric Amirola and Cole Custer) were assigned the next stalls in order beside him before Joey Logano, who is second in the standings, and his Team Penske teammates were slotted in.
The domino effect pushed Wallace’s Richard Petty team further back in the pecking order, all the way to Stall No. 4. (At Talladega, the No. 1 stall is near the back of the garage, and thus not desirable.)
AND;
A loop is not a noose. A di m/ lib's "appearance" and sensitivity be damned.
A noose is tied so that it is adjustable, it can be enlarged to fit over a big ass water head and then tighten up to fit a neck by pulling down on the windings.
A fukin' loop is just a circle tied in a rope.