All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of The Teardown.

This is our Post-Race podcast here on the Athletic.

My name is Jack Fluck, along my follow with George Bianchi.

And this has been a highly emotionally charged weekend for everybody who is involved with NASCAR or a fan of NASCAR,

or really just anybody paying attention around the country.

So I think that we should just jump right into it here.

Of course, we're talking about to start a noose.

It's hard to even say, honestly, just, you know, it is so...

It feels so real.

Yeah.

I was going to say it seems like something that would happen in like a movie,

and you can't even believe that this is real life, everything that's happened.

But it actually happened.

A noose was found in the 43 garage stall on Sunday.

Now, as we know, the race was supposed to be on Sunday.

We understand that it was found in the afternoon sometime by a crew member.

Bubba Wallace did not see it.

The race was eventually rained out.

Steve Phelps, NASCAR president, after the crew

member went to NASCAR, NASCAR went to security. Steve Phelps ultimately is tasked with calling

Bubba Wallace to tell him what happened and break the news to him. Obviously, extremely upsetting. And when I heard about this,

I mean, it was one of the sickest, you know, just I was like shaking. I mean, it was just a horrible,

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