Ford unveils new Mustang for 2019 NASCAR season

Patrick broke into tears after making the announcement, saying that she still plans to race the Daytona 500 and Indy 500.

The noose found in the garage stall of NASCAR’s only black driver Bubba Wallace was not evidence of a racist hate crime but a rope that had been there for months, US investigators said Tuesday. “The FBI has completed its investigation at Talladega Superspeedway and determined that Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime,” NASCAR said in a statement after outrage erupted over the incident, at a time when protests against racial injustice are sweeping the United States. The probe found the garage door pull-rope fashioned like a noose was in the stall long before Sunday’s race at Talladega in Alabama.