NASCAR Race at Talladega Superspeedway Postponed by Rain

TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — Thunderstorms washed out the NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway, an event further dampered Sunday night when news broke that a noose was found in Black driver Bubba Wallace’s garage stall. Hours after Confederate flags were displayed outside the track — some flying from pickup trucks — in protest of NASCAR’s Wallace-led ban of the flags, the sanctioning body said it was made made aware of the noose late in the afternoon. Wallace, the lone Black driver in the elite Cup Series, drives the No. 43 Chevrolet for racing icon Richard Petty. The race was pushed back to 2 p.m. CDT on Monday. It is the first amid the coronavirus pandemic in which NASCAR opened the gates for up to 5,000 fans.