1978 Coca-Cola 500

Pocono Raceway · 1978 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Darrell Waltrip	4	40	27	2	4	125	200	500

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	4	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	125	running	185
2	3	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	200	66	running	175
3	9	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	199		running	165
4	6	2	Dave Marcis	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	197		running	160
5	5	27	Buddy Baker	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	197		running	155
6	17	22	Ricky Rudd	Al Rudd Auto	Chevrolet	197		running	150
7	7	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	197		running	146
8	19	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Chevrolet	194		running	142
9	25	47	Satch Worley	Race Hill Farm Team	Oldsmobile	194		running	138
10	18	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	194		running	134
11	14	57	Dick May	McClure Motors	Ford	194		running	130
12	15	48	Al Holbert	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	190		running	127
13	16	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	189		running	124
14	23	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	187		running	121
15	20	39	Blackie Wangerin	Wangerin Racing	Mercury	186		running	118
16	24	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	186		running	115
17	13	05	Bruce Hill	Harry Clary (Owner)	Oldsmobile	184		engine	112
18	32	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	184		running	109
19	34	4	Gary Myers	Gary Myers (Owner)	Chevrolet	183		running	106
20	31	8	Ferrel Harris	Robert Gee (Owner)	Chevrolet	181		running	103
21	40	34	Nestor Peles	Steve Peles (Owner)	Chevrolet	180		running	100
22	33	19	Joe Booher	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	178		running	97
23	26	84	Kenny Brightbill	Makar Enterprises	Mercury	177		running	0
24	12	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	177		running	91
25	10	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	166		engine	88
26	2	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	166	4	running	90
27	27	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	166		running	82
28	28	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	165		running	79
29	1	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	154		running	76
30	8	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	152	5	engine	78
31	22	68	Janet Guthrie	Lynda Ferreri (Owner)	Buick	117		engine	70
32	39	61	Joe Mihalic	Jim Norris (Owner)	Chevrolet	99		engine	67
33	29	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	69		rear end	64
34	38	85	Bobby Wawak	Greg Heller (Owner)	Ford	65		engine	61
35	11	1	Donnie Allison	Pee Wee Griffin (Owner)	Oldsmobile	59		engine	0
36	21	5	Neil Bonnett	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	45		engine	55
37	37	63	Jocko Maggiacomo	Jockos Racing	Matador	45		engine	52
38	35	29	Dave Dion	Dion Racing	Ford	12		transmission	49
39	30	18	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	5		engine	0
40	36	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Chevrolet	3		engine	43

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Darrell Waltrip	125	62.5%	P1
2	David Pearson	66	33.0%	P2
3	Richard Petty	5	2.5%	P30
4	Cale Yarborough	4	2.0%	P26

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1978 Coca-Cola 500

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