1978 World 600

Charlotte Motor Speedway · 1978 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Darrell Waltrip	17	40	28	6	6	144	400	600

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	17	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	400	144	running	185
2	14	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	400	35	running	175
3	6	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	400	1	running	170
4	2	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	400	130	running	165
5	1	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	400	85	running	160
6	12	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Oldsmobile	400	5	running	155
7	10	27	Buddy Baker	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	399		running	146
8	16	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	398		running	142
9	7	14	Sterling Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	394		running	138
10	24	05	Bruce Hill	Harry Clary (Owner)	Oldsmobile	393		running	134
11	26	41	Grant Adcox	Adcox-Kirby	Chevrolet	389		running	130
12	33	84	Morgan Shepherd	Makar Enterprises	Mercury	389		running	127
13	40	57	Dick May	McClure Motors	Ford	388		running	124
14	23	9	Bill Elliott	George Elliott Racing	Mercury	387		running	121
15	34	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	386		running	118
16	29	00	John A. Utsman	Wellrich Motorsports	Chevrolet	384		running	115
17	28	96	Dale Earnhardt	Cronkrite Racing	Ford	382		running	0
18	31	4	Gary Myers	Gary Myers (Owner)	Chevrolet	380		running	109
19	5	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	373		running	106
20	22	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	372		running	103
21	19	98	Roland Wlodyka	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	369		running	100
22	30	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	369		running	97
23	36	19	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Chevrolet	369		running	94
24	21	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	356		running	91
25	38	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	355		running	88
26	15	92	Skip Manning	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	352		running	85
27	35	89	Jim Vandiver	Vandiver Racing	Chevrolet	343		timing chain	82
28	20	22	Ricky Rudd	Al Rudd Auto	Chevrolet	331		running	79
29	25	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	323		running	76
30	37	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	318		steering	73
31	27	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Oldsmobile	240		engine	70
32	3	2	Dave Marcis	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	198		engine	67
33	9	54	Lennie Pond	Ranier Racing	Oldsmobile	195		accident	64
34	18	49	Connie Saylor	GC Spencer Racing	Dodge	184		engine	61
35	13	5	Neil Bonnett	Jim Stacy Racing	Oldsmobile	157		engine	58
36	4	12	Harry Gant	Kennie Childers (Owner)	Chevrolet	140		overheating	55
37	39	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	129		throttle cable	52
38	8	48	Al Holbert	Hylton Engineering	Oldsmobile	113		accident	49
39	11	51	Ron Hutcherson	A.J. Foyt Racing	Buick	112		accident	0
40	32	28	Jerry Jolly	Charles Dean (Owner)	Chevrolet	20		sway bar	43

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Darrell Waltrip	144	36.0%	P1
2	Cale Yarborough	130	32.5%	P4
3	David Pearson	85	21.3%	P5
4	Donnie Allison	35	8.8%	P2
5	Benny Parsons	5	1.3%	P6
6	Bobby Allison	1	0.3%	P3

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