1978 Delaware 500

Dover International Speedway · 1978 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Bobby Allison	2	37	21	2	5	267	500	500

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	2	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	500	267	running	185
2	8	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	500	221	running	175
3	6	27	Buddy Baker	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	499	1	running	170
4	5	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	498		running	160
5	7	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	497	1	running	160
6	14	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	496		running	150
7	12	54	Lennie Pond	Ranier Racing	Oldsmobile	493		running	146
8	10	2	Dave Marcis	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	493		running	142
9	13	1	Donnie Allison	Pee Wee Griffin (Owner)	Oldsmobile	489		running	138
10	15	92	Dick May	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	485		running	134
11	16	25	Ronnie Thomas	Negre Racing	Chevrolet	483		running	130
12	3	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	482		running	127
13	18	48	Al Holbert	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	472		steering	124
14	27	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Chevrolet	468		running	121
15	29	8	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Dodge	467		running	118
16	26	01	Earle Canavan	Canavan Racing	Dodge	460		running	0
17	20	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	458		running	112
18	22	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Oldsmobile	457		running	109
19	31	34	Nestor Peles	Steve Peles (Owner)	Chevrolet	439		running	106
20	21	4	Gary Myers	Gary Myers (Owner)	Chevrolet	438		piston	103
21	32	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	438		running	100
22	23	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	432		running	97
23	30	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	420		running	94
24	36	09	Nelson Oswald	Oswald Racing	Chevrolet	335		piston	91
25	19	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Chevrolet	320		oil pan	88
26	9	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	311		timing chain	85
27	11	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	269		ignition	82
28	25	29	Dave Dion	Dion Racing	Ford	238		broken valve	79
29	4	5	Neil Bonnett	Osterlund Motorsports	Oldsmobile	220		accident	76
30	28	97	Ralph Jones	Ralph Jones (Owner)	Ford	186		engine	73
31	33	19	Joey Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	143		rear end	70
32	24	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	140		broken valve	67
33	1	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	80	10	piston	69
34	17	18	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	10		quit	0
35	37	35	Louis Gatto		Chevrolet	5		too slow	58
36	34	61	Ferrel Harris	Negre Racing	Chrysler	3		quit	0
37	35	81	Jabe Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	1		quit	52

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Bobby Allison	267	53.4%	P1
2	Cale Yarborough	221	44.2%	P2
3	J.D. McDuffie	10	2.0%	P33
4	Buddy Baker	1	0.2%	P3
5	Darrell Waltrip	1	0.2%	P5

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