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1978 Gabriel 400

Michigan International Speedway · 1978 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Cale Yarborough	3	35	21	4	7	60	200	400

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	3	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	200	60	running	180
2	1	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	200	18	running	175
3	2	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Oldsmobile	200	24	running	170
4	7	2	Dave Marcis	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	5	running	165
5	5	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	199	1	running	160
6	12	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	199		running	150
7	13	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	198		running	146
8	10	27	Buddy Baker	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	198		running	142
9	11	22	Ricky Rudd	Al Rudd Auto	Chevrolet	195		running	138
10	19	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	194		running	134
11	20	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Oldsmobile	193		running	130
12	21	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	192		running	127
13	28	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	191		running	124
14	23	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	190		running	121
15	29	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	189		running	118
16	15	92	Skip Manning	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	188		engine	115
17	33	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Chevrolet	187		running	112
18	24	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	184		running	109
19	25	19	Dick May	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	182		running	106
20	27	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	180		running	103
21	31	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Chevrolet	179		running	100
22	18	41	Grant Adcox	Adcox-Kirby	Chevrolet	172		dead battery	97
23	26	4	Gary Myers	Gary Myers (Owner)	Chevrolet	169		engine	94
24	4	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	168	4	engine	96
25	9	54	Lennie Pond	Ranier Racing	Oldsmobile	152		engine	88
26	34	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	142		running	85
27	17	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Oldsmobile	130		engine	82
28	6	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	129	88	engine	89
29	8	05	Bruce Hill	Harry Clary (Owner)	Oldsmobile	127		engine	76
30	32	0	John Kennedy	John Kennedy (Owner)	Ford	122		transmission	73
31	14	48	Al Holbert	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	108		accident	70
32	16	39	Blackie Wangerin	Wangerin Racing	Mercury	106		accident	67
33	35	01	Earle Canavan	Canavan Racing	Dodge	82		engine	64
34	36	74	Joe Booher	Wawak Racing	Chevrolet	46		engine	61
35	30	8	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Dodge	30		rear end	58

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Darrell Waltrip	88	44.0%	P28
2	Cale Yarborough	60	30.0%	P1
3	Benny Parsons	24	12.0%	P3
4	David Pearson	18	9.0%	P2
5	Dave Marcis	5	2.5%	P4
6	Bobby Allison	4	2.0%	P24
7	Donnie Allison	1	0.5%	P5

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