The noose found in the garage stall used by NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama, on Sunday wasn’t meant as a racist attack on him, the FBI said Tuesday.

In fact, evidence obtained during an investigation showed that the rope in the garage assigned to Wallace on Sunday had been there since last October.

NASCAR said in a statement that the noose had turned out to be a “pull rope” for the garage door.

According to a statement from Wood Brothers Racing, a rival stock car racing team, an employee mentioned seeing a tied rope resembling a noose that was used to pull down the door in Garage No. 4 last year.

Wallace has yet to comment on the findings of the investigation, but after he first reported the noose and his concern about what it represented, his fellow NASCAR drivers and crew members joined together to show support by pushing him and his No. 43 car on the all HuffPost superfans!