1977 Southern 500

Darlington Raceway · 1977 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
David Pearson	5	40	24	3	7	60	367	501.3

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	5	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	367	60	running	180
2	7	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	367	109	running	175
3	3	15	Buddy Baker	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	367		running	165
4	6	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	365	1	running	165
5	4	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Chevrolet	362	70	running	160
6	1	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	360	123	running	160
7	18	22	Ricky Rudd	Al Rudd Auto	Chevrolet	360		running	146
8	12	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	360		running	142
9	28	47	Bruce Hill	Hill Racing	Chevrolet	357		running	0
10	16	52	Bill Elliott	George Elliott Racing	Ford	355		running	134
11	25	8	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Dodge	352		running	130
12	19	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	350		running	127
13	22	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	348		running	124
14	31	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	344		running	121
15	30	4	Gary Myers	Gary Myers (Owner)	Chevrolet	343		running	118
16	26	68	Janet Guthrie	Lynda Ferreri (Owner)	Chevrolet	339		running	115
17	38	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	338		running	112
18	11	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	335		running	109
19	34	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Chevrolet	333		running	106
20	40	69	Mike Kempton	Mike Kempton (Owner)	Chevrolet	324		running	103
21	36	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	321		running	100
22	35	19	Bobby Wawak	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	319		running	97
23	21	01	Earle Canavan	Canavan Racing	Dodge	311		running	94
24	29	91	Terry Bivins	H Miller Racing	Chevrolet	290		engine	91
25	2	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	289	2	engine	93
26	10	14	Coo Coo Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	287		engine	0
27	23	40	D.K. Ulrich	J.R. DeLotto (Owner)	Chevrolet	257		running	82
28	9	54	Lennie Pond	Elder-Ranier	Chevrolet	250	2	accident	84
29	17	27	Sam Sommers	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	219		accident	76
30	39	08	Ralph Jones	Ralph Jones (Owner)	Ford	179		accident	73
31	32	10	Dick May	Champion Racing	Ford	169		engine	70
32	33	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Chevrolet	148		sway bar	67
33	37	25	Ferrel Harris	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	100		engine	64
34	15	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	68		accident	61
35	20	75	Butch Hartman	Butch Hartman (Owner)	Chevrolet	61		accident	58
36	27	98	Roland Wlodyka	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	57		control arm	55
37	13	49	G.C. Spencer	GC Spencer Racing	Dodge	26		accident	52
38	14	92	Skip Manning	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	23		accident	49
39	8	12	Bobby Allison	Bobby Allison Motorsports	Matador	21		engine	46
40	24	61	Joe Mihalic	Mihalic Racing	Chevrolet	12		head gasket	43

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Darrell Waltrip	123	33.5%	P6
2	Donnie Allison	109	29.7%	P2
3	Cale Yarborough	70	19.1%	P5
4	David Pearson	60	16.3%	P1
5	Benny Parsons	2	0.5%	P25
6	Lennie Pond	2	0.5%	P28
7	Richard Petty	1	0.3%	P4

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