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1978 Nashville 420

Nashville Speedway · 1978 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Cale Yarborough	2	30	22	1	4	411	420	250.3

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	2	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	420	411	running	185
2	8	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	418	1	running	175
3	9	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	415	7	running	170
4	5	2	Dave Marcis	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	414		running	160
5	4	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	413	1	running	160
6	6	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	412		running	150
7	11	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	411		running	146
8	13	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	409		running	142
9	15	81	Ferrel Harris	Robert Gee (Owner)	Chevrolet	405		running	0
10	26	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	405		running	134
11	24	41	Grant Adcox	Adcox-Kirby	Chevrolet	405		running	130
12	18	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	402		running	127
13	17	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	396		running	124
14	10	05	Bruce Hill	Harry Clary (Owner)	Oldsmobile	394		running	121
15	23	4	Gary Myers	Gary Myers (Owner)	Chevrolet	390		running	118
16	25	64	Elmo Langley	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	389		running	115
17	19	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	383		running	112
18	29	19	Dick May	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	380		running	109
19	28	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Chevrolet	379		running	106
20	21	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	377		running	103
21	27	97	Ralph Jones	Ralph Jones (Owner)	Ford	372		running	100
22	16	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Chevrolet	357		running	97
23	12	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	341		crank housing	94
24	14	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	201		burned wiring	91
25	7	14	Sterling Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	197		brakes	88
26	1	54	Lennie Pond	Ranier Racing	Chevrolet	171		engine	85
27	22	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	91		engine	82
28	3	5	Neil Bonnett	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	50		clutch	79
29	20	71	Bobby Fisher	Bobby Fisher (Owner)	Chevrolet	30		accident	0
30	30	48	Walter Ballard	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	0		did not start	73

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Cale Yarborough	411	97.9%	P1
2	Richard Childress	7	1.7%	P3
3	Darrell Waltrip	1	0.2%	P2
4	J.D. McDuffie	1	0.2%	P5

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