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1976 Southern 500

Darlington Raceway · 1976 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
David Pearson	1	40	22	4	10	93	367	501.3

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	1	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	367	93	running	185
2	8	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	367	32	running	175
3	4	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	367	50	running	170
4	6	71	Dave Marcis	K&K Insurance Racing	Dodge	367	58	running	165
5	14	54	Lennie Pond	Elder-Ranier	Chevrolet	365	1	running	160
6	9	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	364		running	150
7	5	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	364	3	running	151
8	11	14	Coo Coo Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	356		running	142
9	2	2	Bobby Allison	Penske Racing South	Mercury	355	28	running	143
10	22	36	Bobby Wawak	Gwinn-Wawak	Chevrolet	355		running	134
11	25	7	Dean Dalton	Dalton Racing	Chevrolet	351		running	130
12	15	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Chevrolet	347		running	127
13	20	41	Grant Adcox	Adcox-Kirby	Chevrolet	346		running	124
14	24	30	Terry Bivins	Ballard Racing	Chevrolet	345		running	121
15	12	60	Jackie Rogers	Viglione Racing	Chevrolet	343		running	118
16	21	40	D.K. Ulrich	J.R. DeLotto (Owner)	Chevrolet	342		running	115
17	34	33	Buck Baker	Hiram Handy (Owner)	Chevrolet	341		running	112
18	27	52	Jimmy Means	Means Racing	Chevrolet	336		running	109
19	35	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	336		running	106
20	32	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	334		running	103
21	29	19	Henley Gray	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	327		running	100
22	18	47	Bruce Hill	Hill Racing	Chevrolet	321		engine	97
23	7	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Chevrolet	307	49	running	99
24	16	12	Neil Bonnett	Neil Bonnett (Owner)	Chevrolet	290		sway bar	91
25	33	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	272		engine	88
26	31	8	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Dodge	238		engine	85
27	28	95	Gary Myers	Junior Miller Racing	Chevrolet	216		timing chain	82
28	23	49	Dick May	GC Spencer Racing	Dodge	213		engine	79
29	38	01	Earle Canavan	Canavan Racing	Dodge	210		engine	76
30	19	27	Sam Sommers	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	208		wheel bearing	73
31	3	15	Buddy Baker	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	181	10	oil cooler	75
32	26	92	Skip Manning	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	172		accident	67
33	10	28	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	167	43	water pump	69
34	37	18	Joe Frasson	Frasson Racing	Chevrolet	166		accident	61
35	30	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	124		broken valve	58
36	17	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	117		crankshaft	55
37	39	10	Bruce Jacobi	Champion Racing	Ford	59		engine	52
38	40	20	Rick Newsom	Newsom Racing	Chevrolet	44		ignition	49
39	13	05	David Sisco	Sisco Racing	Chevrolet	13		accident	46
40	36	50	Darrell Bryant	Cliff Stewart Racing	Chevrolet	3		oil pressure	43

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	David Pearson	93	25.3%	P1
2	Dave Marcis	58	15.8%	P4
3	Darrell Waltrip	50	13.6%	P3
4	Cale Yarborough	49	13.4%	P23
5	Donnie Allison	43	11.7%	P33
6	Richard Petty	32	8.7%	P2
7	Bobby Allison	28	7.6%	P9
8	Buddy Baker	10	2.7%	P31
9	Benny Parsons	3	0.8%	P7
10	Lennie Pond	1	0.3%	P5

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