1977 American 500

Rockingham Speedway · 1977 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Donnie Allison	1	36	18	3	5	374	492	500.4

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	1	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	492	374	running	185
2	5	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	492	5	running	175
3	4	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	492	8	running	170
4	2	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Chevrolet	490	81	running	165
5	6	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	489		running	155
6	17	12	Bobby Allison	Bobby Allison Motorsports	Matador	488		running	150
7	3	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	482		running	146
8	10	92	Skip Manning	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	478		running	142
9	14	68	Janet Guthrie	Lynda Ferreri (Owner)	Chevrolet	476		running	138
10	20	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	473		running	134
11	24	74	Bobby Wawak	Wawak Racing	Chevrolet	471		running	130
12	22	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	471		running	127
13	19	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	464		running	124
14	27	19	Dick May	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	456		running	121
15	29	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	441		running	118
16	35	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	437		running	115
17	11	27	Sam Sommers	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	425		running	112
18	32	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	423		running	109
19	36	10	Dean Dalton	Champion Racing	Ford	391		engine	106
20	25	4	Randy Myers	Gary Myers (Owner)	Chevrolet	377		accident	0
21	23	61	Joe Mihalic	Mihalic Racing	Chevrolet	340		piston	100
22	30	52	Jimmy Means	Means Racing	Chevrolet	326		engine	97
23	21	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Chevrolet	319		engine	94
24	31	8	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Dodge	276		engine	91
25	16	22	Ricky Rudd	Al Rudd Auto	Chevrolet	234		push rod	88
26	13	47	Bruce Hill	Hill Racing	Chevrolet	230		engine	85
27	7	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	220		broken valve	82
28	8	5	Neil Bonnett	Jim Stacy Racing	Dodge	216	24	cylinder head	84
29	9	15	Buddy Baker	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	197		accident	76
30	28	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	131		rear end	73
31	18	98	Dave Marcis	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	128		engine	70
32	33	46	Travis Tiller	Morgan-McClure	Chevrolet	103		rocker arm	67
33	15	40	D.K. Ulrich	J.R. DeLotto (Owner)	Chevrolet	95		engine	64
34	34	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Chevrolet	77		accident	61
35	26	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	68		engine	58
36	12	54	Lennie Pond	Elder-Ranier	Chevrolet	66		engine	55

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Donnie Allison	374	76.0%	P1
2	Cale Yarborough	81	16.5%	P4
3	Neil Bonnett	24	4.9%	P28
4	Darrell Waltrip	8	1.6%	P3
5	Richard Petty	5	1.0%	P2

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