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1976 American 500

Rockingham Speedway · 1976 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Richard Petty	4	36	23	1	5	193	492	500.4

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	4	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	492	193	running	185
2	11	54	Lennie Pond	Elder-Ranier	Chevrolet	491	113	running	175
3	8	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	489		running	165
4	7	2	Bobby Allison	Penske Racing South	Mercury	489		running	160
5	9	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Chevrolet	488		running	155
6	1	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	488	31	running	155
7	5	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	486	1	fuel pump	151
8	12	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	486		running	142
9	15	92	Skip Manning	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	478		running	138
10	22	14	Coo Coo Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	474		running	134
11	18	55	Sonny Easley	Jerry Lankford (Owner)	Ford	469		running	130
12	21	41	Grant Adcox	Adcox-Kirby	Chevrolet	468		running	127
13	32	8	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Dodge	464		running	124
14	10	40	D.K. Ulrich	J.R. DeLotto (Owner)	Chevrolet	464		running	121
15	23	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Chevrolet	461		running	118
16	17	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	460		running	115
17	25	30	Terry Bivins	Ballard Racing	Chevrolet	459		running	112
18	31	20	Rick Newsom	Newsom Racing	Ford	456		running	109
19	13	60	Jackie Rogers	Viglione Racing	Chevrolet	454		running	106
20	24	05	David Sisco	Sisco Racing	Chevrolet	450		running	103
21	29	7	Jack Donohue	Dalton Racing	Chevrolet	444		running	100
22	27	19	Frank Warren	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	434		running	97
23	28	52	Jimmy Means	Means Racing	Chevrolet	432		running	94
24	26	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	423		running	91
25	2	71	Dave Marcis	K&K Insurance Racing	Dodge	413	154	engine	93
26	36	33	J.D. McDuffie	Handy Racing	Chevrolet	389		head gasket	85
27	16	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	363		camshaft	82
28	3	15	Buddy Baker	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	299		accelerator linkage	79
29	20	5	James Hylton	Faustina Racing	Dodge	171		rear end	76
30	35	25	Dick May	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	127		broken valve	73
31	6	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	117		engine	70
32	33	46	Travis Tiller	Morgan-McClure	Dodge	88		head gasket	67
33	14	36	Bobby Wawak	Gwinn-Wawak	Chevrolet	76		overheating	64
34	30	4	Gary Myers	Gary Myers (Owner)	Chevrolet	5		engine	61
35	34	47	Bruce Hill	Hill Racing	Chevrolet	2		oil pressure	58
36	19	49	Henley Gray	GC Spencer Racing	Dodge	1		cylinder wall	55

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Richard Petty	193	39.2%	P1
2	Dave Marcis	154	31.3%	P25
3	Lennie Pond	113	23.0%	P2
4	David Pearson	31	6.3%	P6
5	Donnie Allison	1	0.2%	P7

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