Joey Logano won the race, his sixth of the season and third in a row, thus sweeping the entire Contender Round.

This was the 14th career victory for Logano, sixth of the season, third consecutive, first at Talladega Superspeedway and third at the track for Team Penske.

The CampingWorld.com 500 at Talladega was carried by NBC Sports on the cable/satellite NBCSN network for the American television audience.

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

[22] On Tuesday, October 20, NASCAR announced that the number of green-white-checker attempts would be reduced to just a single-attempt for the weekend's race.

[23] NASCAR Executive Vice-President and Chief Racing Development Officer Steve O'Donnell said that after "extensive dialogue with the industry, we have decided to make a procedural change at Talladega Superspeedway this weekend.

In the event the race goes beyond the advertised distance due to a caution, we will use a single attempt at a green-white-checker finish.

[24] Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Matt Kenseth and Ryan Newman only controlled their destinies with a win.

"[27] Dale Earnhardt Jr. said that his teammates "had a little more speed, but we feel like our car is going to race really well and just ready to go,”[27] Martin Truex Jr.'s time was disallowed after he went below the yellow line during his qualifying laps, which is forbidden on superspeedways.

[27] Under overcast Alabama skies, Jeff Gordon led the field to the green flag at 2:34 p.m. Eastern time.

When Trevor Bayne caught his bumper, Matt Kenseth broke out of line and drove past teammate Hamlin.

Aric Almirola was tagged for speeding on pit road and was forced to serve a drive-through penalty.

Earnhardt ducked onto pit road on lap 80 and handed the lead to Michael Waltrip.

Michael McDowell was tagged for speeding on pit road and was forced to serve a drive-through penalty.

Casey Mears couldn't get his car slowed down enough while pitting and ran through the tri-oval grass on lap 118.

Kahne hit pit road the next lap and handed the lead to Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. dove underneath Kyle Busch on the backstretch to retake the lead with 37 laps to go.

With 10 laps to go, Earnhardt and a number of other cars broke the single-file train and began making his move towards the front of the line.

Unfortunately for Biffle, Jamie McMurray's engine let go on the backstretch and brought out the second caution of the race with five laps to go.

On the second attempt, the third caution of the race flew for a huge crash exiting pit road.

That happened as Kevin Harvick's car was unable to accelerate when the green flag was waived (he had developed the problem before the first attempt, where he had moved out of the way with considerable room before the line and was not involved in the failed restart) and collided with Trevor Bayne before the start line.

A total of ten cars were involved in the melee, Denny Hamlin, Michael McDowell, Tony Stewart, Matt Kenseth, David Gilliland, Kevin Harvick, Danica Patrick, Sam Hornish Jr., Trevor Bayne and Austin Dillon.

NASCAR decided Logano was ahead of Earnhardt when the caution came out and scored his sixth race of the season and first at Talladega.

[28] During the burnout celebration, fans hurled debris including beer cans at Logano as a protest to the green-white checkered rule and the fact that the yellow flag was immediately displayed when the crash occurred and not letting the cars race back to the finish line.

I would have loved to have a shot at them there and finish this thing out.”[32] Several drivers had expressed criticisms over Kevin Harvick during the final restart attempt including Trevor Bayne who've accused Harvick of deliberately wrecking him in order to secure his position for the Elimination 8 Round.

[33] "I timed the restart and got to his bumper and when I realized there was no chance he was going to go, I pulled to the high side, he was still in line, I got to his door, he started coming up, I went all the way out, and then he just hooked us.

But then after going back and watching, it wasn't that complicated" said Bayne in an interview with Fox Sports prior to the race at Martinsville Speedway.

Rick Allen, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte will have the call in the booth for the race.

Dave Burns, Mike Massaro, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast will handle pit road on the television side.

Alex Hayden, Winston Kelley and Steve Post will handle pit road on the radio side.