1978 Talladega 500

Talladega Superspeedway · 1978 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Lennie Pond	5	41	28	4	9	22	188	500.1

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	5	54	Lennie Pond	Ranier Racing	Oldsmobile	188	22	running	180
2	9	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Oldsmobile	188	4	running	175
3	2	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Oldsmobile	188	9	running	170
4	1	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	188	79	running	170
5	3	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	187	6	running	160
6	20	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	186		running	150
7	6	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	186	5	running	151
8	14	5	Neil Bonnett	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	183	2	running	147
9	15	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	182		running	138
10	17	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Oldsmobile	181		running	134
11	24	8	Ferrel Harris	Robert Gee (Owner)	Chevrolet	181		running	130
12	27	96	Dale Earnhardt	Cronkrite Racing	Ford	180		running	127
13	19	9	Bill Elliott	George Elliott Racing	Mercury	179		running	124
14	25	2	Dave Marcis	Osterlund Motorsports	Oldsmobile	176		running	121
15	29	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	175		running	118
16	34	19	Dick May	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	172		running	115
17	23	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	172		running	112
18	38	42	Marty Robbins	Robbins Racing	Dodge	171		running	109
19	41	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	168		running	106
20	30	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	168		running	103
21	31	4	Gary Myers	Gary Myers (Owner)	Chevrolet	167		running	100
22	33	41	Grant Adcox	Adcox-Kirby	Chevrolet	165		running	97
23	32	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	165		running	94
24	35	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	164		running	91
25	18	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	164		running	88
26	8	14	Coo Coo Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	158		engine	85
27	40	73	Steve Moore	Willard Moore (Owner)	Chevrolet	150		running	82
28	4	27	Buddy Baker	M.C. Anderson Racing	Oldsmobile	149	57	broken valve	84
29	12	68	Janet Guthrie	Lynda Ferreri (Owner)	Buick	129		accident	76
30	28	48	Al Holbert	Hylton Engineering	Oldsmobile	124		timing chain	73
31	39	01	Earle Canavan	Canavan Racing	Dodge	119		running	0
32	36	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	118		accident	67
33	13	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	110		running	64
34	11	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	105	4	engine	66
35	21	05	Bruce Hill	Harry Clary (Owner)	Oldsmobile	96		axle housing	58
36	37	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	94		clutch	55
37	16	49	Claude Ballot-Lena	GC Spencer Racing	Dodge	48		engine	0
38	10	92	Skip Manning	Hagan Enterprises	Buick	46		engine	49
39	7	22	Ricky Rudd	Al Rudd Auto	Chevrolet	22		cylinder head	46
40	26	39	Blackie Wangerin	Wangerin Racing	Mercury	9		broken valve	43
41	22	12	James Hylton	Al Rudd Auto	Buick	1		transmission	0

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Cale Yarborough	79	42.0%	P4
2	Buddy Baker	57	30.3%	P28
3	Lennie Pond	22	11.7%	P1
4	Benny Parsons	9	4.8%	P3
5	David Pearson	6	3.2%	P5
6	Richard Petty	5	2.7%	P7
7	Donnie Allison	4	2.1%	P2
8	Darrell Waltrip	4	2.1%	P34
9	Neil Bonnett	2	1.1%	P8

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