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1978 Firecracker 400

Daytona International Speedway · 1978 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
David Pearson	3	40	22	2	10	57	160	400

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	3	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	160	57	running	185
2	1	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	160	56	running	175
3	8	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	159	14	running	170
4	7	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	159	4	running	165
5	14	54	Lennie Pond	Ranier Racing	Chevrolet	158	2	running	160
6	9	2	Dave Marcis	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	158	4	running	155
7	28	96	Dale Earnhardt	Cronkrite Racing	Ford	157		running	146
8	33	81	Ferrel Harris	Robert Gee (Owner)	Chevrolet	157		running	0
9	23	9	Bill Elliott	George Elliott Racing	Mercury	157		running	138
10	22	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Oldsmobile	156		running	134
11	36	68	Janet Guthrie	Lynda Ferreri (Owner)	Chevrolet	154		running	130
12	20	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	153		running	127
13	40	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	152		running	124
14	34	18	Joe Frasson	Frasson Racing	Chevrolet	152		running	121
15	29	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	152		running	118
16	30	19	Dick May	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	151		running	115
17	26	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	151		running	112
18	37	47	Satch Worley	Race Hill Farm Team	Oldsmobile	150		running	109
19	35	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	149		running	106
20	31	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	146		running	103
21	25	22	Ricky Rudd	Al Rudd Auto	Buick	143		crank pulley	100
22	18	41	Grant Adcox	Adcox-Kirby	Chevrolet	142		engine	97
23	15	5	Neil Bonnett	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	140		clutch	94
24	19	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	136		running	91
25	38	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	129		running	88
26	2	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Oldsmobile	92	11	engine	90
27	10	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	75	8	accident	87
28	32	82	Paul Fess	Stan Lasky (Owner)	Chevrolet	75		transmission	0
29	21	16	Raymond Williams	Bobby Reeves (Owner)	Buick	74		broken valve	76
30	12	48	Al Holbert	Hylton Engineering	Oldsmobile	69		engine	73
31	16	39	Blackie Wangerin	Wangerin Racing	Mercury	61		engine	70
32	39	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Chevrolet	57		engine	67
33	13	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	55	1	steering	69
34	24	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	55		engine	61
35	27	49	Claude Ballot-Lena	GC Spencer Racing	Dodge	45		oil cooler	0
36	11	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	35		throttle linkage	55
37	4	27	Buddy Baker	M.C. Anderson Racing	Oldsmobile	28	3	cylinder head	57
38	6	14	Coo Coo Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	22		broken valve	49
39	5	92	Skip Manning	Hagan Enterprises	Buick	9		accident	46
40	17	05	Bruce Hill	Harry Clary (Owner)	Oldsmobile	9		accident	43

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	David Pearson	57	35.6%	P1
2	Cale Yarborough	56	35.0%	P2
3	Darrell Waltrip	14	8.8%	P3
4	Benny Parsons	11	6.9%	P26
5	Bobby Allison	8	5.0%	P27
6	Richard Petty	4	2.5%	P4
7	Dave Marcis	4	2.5%	P6
8	Buddy Baker	3	1.9%	P37
9	Lennie Pond	2	1.3%	P5
10	Donnie Allison	1	0.6%	P33

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