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NASCAR Preview: New title format heightens Talladega unpredictability

By NASCAR Media
Posted 2:22PM on Friday 2nd May 2014 ( 10 years ago )
TALLADEGA, AL - Talladega Superspeedway and unpredictability have been joined at the high-banked hip not long after the place opened the gates for its very first NASCAR Sprint Cup race in September 1969.

You know. The race that almost never happened. The one derailed by drivers' concerns about tire wear while approaching 200 mph on a 2.66-mile tri-oval that had risen from the Alabama countryside, looking like Daytona on steroids.

Drivers boycotted. NASCAR President Bill France, Sr. got things back on track
Austin Dillon took this wild ride after contact from Casey Mears on the final lap of last October's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway. / Photo: NASCAR via Getty Images

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