The track is a tri-oval and was constructed by International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France Family, in the 1960s.

Talladega Superspeedway is the longest NASCAR oval with a length of 2.66 miles (4.28 km), and the track at its peak had a seating capacity of 175,000 spectators.

However, Goodyear decided to stay, hoping to win the war and prove that their tires were better than Firestone's.

NASCAR president Bill France hated the PDA and unions in his sport (shown by his banning of Curtis Turner for trying to start a union in 1961, although by that time he had been reinstated in 1965), but couldn't do anything to ban them due to the major publicity it would cause.

[6] The PDA offered to postpone the race until a tire compound that could withstand the track was made.

Drivers took this as a major insult, as they thought it undermined what they do, and the fact that someone would break that rule anyway if they ran it.

Word quickly spread, and most of the PDA with the exception of Richard Brickhouse (who was coerced by Chrysler to drive their new car), packed up and left.

John Hill, Jake Elder, Harry Hyde, and Mack Howard were the most notable crew chiefs to witness the race.

Jimmy Vaughn would record a 7th place finish in his only NASCAR Cup series race while future championship winning owner Billy Hagan recorded his lone career Top 10 with an 8th place finish.

The PDA disbanded soon after their boycott, with the next union-like organization in NASCAR not occurring again until the Race Team Alliance was formed in 2014.

Therefore, Chrysler talked Bill France into inventing a scoring error and showed that Brickhouse was the winner.