NASCAR drivers' concerns about safety are similar to a time 53 years ago when Richard Petty was involved in a boycott at Talladega.
Practice began at Talladega on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1969, with qualifying scheduled for the next day. The racing surface at the 2.66-mile track was immediately deemed too rough.
Only nine cars could qualify the Wednesday before the race, and only four more by Thursday with a 40-mph separation in speed from fastest to slowest. By Friday, another 14 cars qualified for a total of 27. Eventually, 36 cars would make up the field. Twenty would not be Cup Series machines. The PDA voted Friday evening to withdraw from the race. Then on Saturday morning, the PDA met with France one last time in hopes of a resolution they knew wouldn’t come.
“We stick our necks out every time we race,” Petty said to France on behalf of the PDA, according to the AMC article. “We aren’t foolish enough to play Russian roulette. The track is rough and dangerous. We will not race on the track as it is now.”“It’s like it happened yesterday,” Inman said. “France wanted us to test tires, but Richard said no. We purposely left the radiator out of our car so it wouldn’t be ready to drive. The track was in bad shape and the tires just couldn’t handle it.
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