Two hundred and nineteen laps were run on an oval track spanning 1.375 miles (2.213 km).

[2] This would be one of fifteen times in his 35-year-long NASCAR Cup Series career that he would finish a race in the last place position.

[3] His final last-place finish would be at the 1989 Holly Farms 400 race at North Wilkesboro Speedway.

[4] Notable crew chiefs for this race were Shorty Johns, Roy Burdick, Mario Rossi, Smokey Yunick and Ray Fox.

Changes made to the sport by the late 1960s brought an end to the "strictly stock" vehicles of the 1950s; most of the cars were trailered to events or hauled away by trucks.