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1978 Mason-Dixon 500

Dover International Speedway · 1978 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
David Pearson	3	40	21	2	9	148	500	500

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	3	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	500	148	running	180
2	5	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	500	1	running	175
3	4	54	Lennie Pond	Ranier Racing	Chevrolet	499	4	running	170
4	2	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	498	5	running	165
5	10	5	Neil Bonnett	Jim Stacy Racing	Dodge	497	26	running	160
6	7	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	497	290	running	160
7	15	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	494		running	146
8	9	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	493	1	running	147
9	13	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	492		running	138
10	14	48	Al Holbert	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	492		running	134
11	19	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Chevrolet	489		running	130
12	16	92	Skip Manning	Hagan Enterprises	Buick	486		running	127
13	21	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	485		running	124
14	18	47	Satch Worley	Race Hill Farm Team	Chevrolet	481		running	0
15	6	2	Dave Marcis	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	480	1	running	123
16	17	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	477		running	115
17	25	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	474		running	112
18	23	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	470		running	109
19	8	05	Bruce Hill	Harry Clary (Owner)	Oldsmobile	456		oil pump	106
20	22	01	Earle Canavan	Canavan Racing	Dodge	448		running	103
21	32	19	Dick May	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	438		running	100
22	34	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	379		engine	97
23	1	27	Buddy Baker	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	363	24	cylinder head	99
24	36	34	Nestor Peles	Steve Peles (Owner)	Chevrolet	360		driver fatigue	91
25	33	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Chevrolet	324		running	88
26	27	4	Gary Myers	Gary Myers (Owner)	Chevrolet	308		oil pump	85
27	31	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	302		engine	82
28	35	74	Bobby Wawak	Wawak Racing	Chevrolet	261		transmission	79
29	39	85	Greg Heller	Greg Heller (Owner)	Ford	250		overheating	0
30	29	61	Joe Mihalic	Jim Norris (Owner)	Chevrolet	215		engine	0
31	20	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	201		clutch	70
32	26	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	75		engine	67
33	11	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	64		broken valve	64
34	12	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	35		oil pan	61
35	30	8	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Dodge	15		oil line	58
36	37	29	Bill Hollar	Hollar Racing	Chevrolet	14		transmission	55
37	24	10	Elmo Langley	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	5		oil pressure	52
38	38	09	Nelson Oswald	Oswald Racing	Chevrolet	5		accident	49
39	40	80	Wayne Morgan	Wayne Morgan (Owner)	Chevrolet	3		head gasket	46
40	28	28	Dave Dion	Dion Racing	Ford	0		engine	43

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Darrell Waltrip	290	58.0%	P6
2	David Pearson	148	29.6%	P1
3	Neil Bonnett	26	5.2%	P5
4	Buddy Baker	24	4.8%	P23
5	Benny Parsons	5	1.0%	P4
6	Lennie Pond	4	0.8%	P3
7	Cale Yarborough	1	0.2%	P2
8	Bobby Allison	1	0.2%	P8
9	Dave Marcis	1	0.2%	P15

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