1973 Southern 500

Darlington Raceway · 1973 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Laps	Miles
Cale Yarborough	8	41	23	2	367	501.3

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Status	Pts
1	8	11	Cale Yarborough	Howard & Egerton Racing	Chevrolet	367	running	125
2	1	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	367	running	98
3	5	71	Buddy Baker	K&K Insurance Racing	Dodge	366	running	96
4	3	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	361	running	94
5	7	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	360	running	92
6	2	12	Bobby Allison	Bobby Allison Motorsports	Chevrolet	355	running	90
7	14	14	Coo Coo Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	352	running	88
8	4	15	Darrell Waltrip	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	351	running	86
9	22	61	Dick Brooks	B & B Racing	Chevrolet	351	running	84
10	32	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	348	running	82
11	13	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Chevrolet	343	running	80
12	20	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Mercury	340	running	78
13	33	25	Jabe Thomas	Robertson Racing	Dodge	340	running	76
14	12	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	338	running	74
15	34	74	Randy Tissot	Randy Tissot (Owner)	Chevrolet	333	running	72
16	10	77	Charlie Roberts	Roberts Racing	Chevrolet	332	running	70
17	28	30	Walter Ballard	Ballard Racing	Mercury	328	running	68
18	38	40	D.K. Ulrich	Jasper Motorsports	Ford	327	running	66
19	26	7	Dean Dalton	Dalton Racing	Mercury	323	running	64
20	21	19	Henley Gray	Gray Racing	Mercury	320	running	62
21	40	73	Mel Larson	Robertson Racing	Dodge	309	running	60
22	25	10	Bill Champion	Champion Racing	Mercury	305	running	58
23	11	18	Joe Frasson	Frasson Racing	Dodge	304	engine	56
24	24	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	289	running	54
25	36	47	Raymond Williams	Williams Racing	Ford	255	engine	52
26	39	4	Ed Negre	Sears Racing	Dodge	233	valve	50
27	16	31	Jim Vandiver	Vandiver Racing	Dodge	223	engine	48
28	27	05	David Sisco	McGee Racing	Chevrolet	206	engine	46
29	31	90	Bud Moore	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	174	engine	44
30	6	28	Charlie Glotzbach	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	152	rear end	42
31	17	64	Elmo Langley	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	139	head gasket	40
32	19	29	Dick May	Hollar Racing	Mercury	104	too slow	38
33	23	98	Richie Panch	Donlavey Racing	Ford	75	accident	36
34	30	45	Vic Parsons	Seifert Racing	Ford	75	valve	34
35	37	89	Johnny Barnes	J.C. Crews (Owner)	Mercury	45	engine	32
36	18	03	Tommy Gale	Smokey Yunick Racing	Mercury	41	engine	30
37	9	54	Lennie Pond	Elder-Ranier	Chevrolet	34	oil pressure	28
38	35	44	Richard D. Brown	Brown Racing (Jerry Brown)	Chevrolet	30	quit	26
39	15	49	G.C. Spencer	GC Spencer Racing	Dodge	20	oil leak	24
40	29	96	Richard Childress	Garn Racing	Chevrolet	19	engine	22
41	41	60	Neil Castles		Dodge	0	did not start	0

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