1972 Atlanta 500

Atlanta Motor Speedway · 1972 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Bobby Allison	1	40	26	3	6	142	328	499.2

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	1	12	Bobby Allison	Howard & Egerton Racing	Chevrolet	328	142	running	100
2	4	21	A.J. Foyt	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	328	9	running	0
3	2	71	Bobby Isaac	K&K Insurance Racing	Dodge	328	132	running	96
4	5	15	David Pearson	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	327	3	running	94
5	6	27	Donnie Allison	Monty Myers (Owner)	Chevrolet	327	11	running	92
6	3	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Plymouth	325	31	running	90
7	9	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Mercury	324		running	88
8	10	11	Buddy Baker	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	323		running	86
9	12	45	LeeRoy Yarbrough	Seifert Racing	Ford	323		running	84
10	7	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Ford	320		running	82
11	25	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	318		running	0
12	23	14	Coo Coo Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	317		running	78
13	30	91	Richard D. Brown	Acton Racing	Chevrolet	316		running	76
14	14	49	G.C. Spencer	GC Spencer Racing	Plymouth	316		running	74
15	11	16	Mark Donohue	Penske Racing	American Motors Company	314		running	0
16	28	23	Bill Dennis	Robertson Racing	Plymouth	314		running	70
17	20	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Mercury	312		running	68
18	37	8	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Dodge	308		running	66
19	27	25	Jabe Thomas	Robertson Racing	Plymouth	307		running	64
20	32	77	Charlie Roberts	Roberts Racing	Ford	306		running	62
21	33	4	John Sears	Sears Racing	Plymouth	301		running	60
22	31	0	George Altheide	George Altheide (Owner)	Dodge	299		running	58
23	16	2	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Dodge	286		running	56
24	39	19	Henley Gray	Gray Racing	Ford	286		running	54
25	13	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	260		running	52
26	18	30	Walter Ballard	Ballard Racing	Ford	253		running	50
27	34	03	Tommy Gale	Frank Vasko (Owner)	Mercury	224		oil pressure	48
28	29	7	Dean Dalton	Dalton Racing	Mercury	214		oil pan	46
29	35	76	Ben Arnold	Arnold Racing	Ford	208		engine	44
30	24	18	Joe Frasson	Frasson Racing	Dodge	157		engine	42
31	19	97	Red Farmer	Willie Humphries (Owner)	Ford	126		transmission	40
32	8	31	Jim Vandiver	Vandiver Racing	Dodge	112		engine	38
33	22	47	Raymond Williams	Williams Racing	Ford	103		transmission	36
34	36	64	Elmo Langley	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	81		clutch	34
35	38	53	Dick May	J.C. Crews (Owner)	Ford	66		axle	32
36	26	88	Ron Keselowski	Lubinski Racing	Dodge	59		accident	30
37	40	05	David Sisco	McGee Racing	Chevrolet	59		rocker arm	28
38	15	92	Larry Smith	Harley Smith (Owner)	Ford	58		accident	26
39	21	83	Lem Blankenship	Howard & Egerton Racing	Dodge	50		ignition	24
40	17	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	11		accident	22

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Bobby Allison	142	43.3%	P1
2	Bobby Isaac	132	40.2%	P3
3	Richard Petty	31	9.5%	P6
4	Donnie Allison	11	3.4%	P5
5	A.J. Foyt	9	2.7%	P2
6	David Pearson	3	0.9%	P4

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