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1978 Volunteer 500

Bristol Motor Speedway · 1978 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Cale Yarborough	4	30	18	2	7	327	500	266.5

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	4	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	500	327	running	185
2	3	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Oldsmobile	500	65	running	175
3	2	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	499	46	running	170
4	12	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	497		running	160
5	11	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	495	2	running	160
6	9	2	Dave Marcis	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	495		running	150
7	13	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	494	24	running	151
8	5	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	481		running	142
9	10	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	477		running	138
10	15	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	477		running	134
11	7	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	476		running	130
12	21	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	475		running	127
13	26	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Chevrolet	469		running	124
14	19	4	Gary Myers	Gary Myers (Owner)	Chevrolet	465		running	121
15	24	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	458		running	118
16	22	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	443		running	115
17	16	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	438		running	112
18	8	8	Ferrel Harris	Robert Gee (Owner)	Chevrolet	425		running	109
19	23	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	353		ignition	106
20	14	5	Neil Bonnett	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	287		engine	103
21	20	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	279		engine	100
22	6	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	253	6	engine	102
23	17	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Chevrolet	232		broken spindle	94
24	29	09	Nelson Oswald	Oswald Racing	Chevrolet	195		too slow	91
25	18	19	Dick May	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	123		accident	88
26	1	54	Lennie Pond	Ranier Racing	Oldsmobile	103	30	handling	90
27	25	97	Ralph Jones	Ralph Jones (Owner)	Ford	37		engine	82
28	27	74	Bobby Wawak	Wawak Racing	Chevrolet	13		transmission	79
29	30	7	Ed Negre	Arrington Racing	Dodge	3		clutch	76
30	28	36	Bill Green	Charles Dean (Owner)	Chevrolet	0		accident	73

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Cale Yarborough	327	65.4%	P1
2	Benny Parsons	65	13.0%	P2
3	Darrell Waltrip	46	9.2%	P3
4	Lennie Pond	30	6.0%	P26
5	Richard Childress	24	4.8%	P7
6	Bobby Allison	6	1.2%	P22
7	Richard Petty	2	0.4%	P5

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