By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer/ BNC Contributor Declaring the noose was real, NASCAR officials on Thursday released a photo of the rope found in the speedway garage stall of Black driver Bubba Wallace that prompted a federal investigation into whether he had been the target of a hate crime. The incident has put racism front and center for the stock car series that two weeks ago banned the Confederate flag from its venues and races at Wallaces urging. It also prompted criticism from some fans that NASCAR had somehow overreacted — criticism NASCAR has bristled at and cited in []

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