NASCAR did a review of garages at all the tracks.
I believe it was 1,648 garages and ELEVEN had pull ropes. About 1 in 150.
One looked like a noose!
So, someone thought shaping a pull rope into a noose was a good idea, when 99.3% of all the doors don't even had one.
This story is getting weirder.

of who assigns the drivers to the garages and what kind of access does that person have to the garages. The noose may have been there all along, but someone may have thought it a good idea to assign Wallace to that garage knowing the noose was there.

Get some of those recent 70% supporters revved up on a graphic image and its implications.

1, 2, and 4 have no entry/exit door to the left as viewed from the exterior. Photo 3 clearly has a door immediately to the left.

Also, the garage door is up in all photos but the rope in two photos is at shoulder/chest level and at waist level in another.

And the fluorescent lights in photos 1 and 2 are running different directions.

I believe that is the distinction iirc.