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1978 Wilkes 400

North Wilkesboro Speedway · 1978 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Cale Yarborough	3	27	19	2	2	19	400	250

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	3	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	400	19	running	180
2	1	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	400	381	running	180
3	6	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	399		running	165
4	8	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	397		running	160
5	5	5	Neil Bonnett	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	397		running	155
6	2	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	395		running	150
7	4	54	Lennie Pond	Ranier Racing	Chevrolet	395		running	146
8	9	2	Dave Marcis	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	394		running	142
9	7	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	388		running	138
10	10	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Chevrolet	387		running	134
11	14	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	385		running	130
12	15	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	384		running	127
13	13	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	380		running	124
14	20	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	379		running	121
15	27	24	Junior Miller	Gordon Racing	Chevrolet	376		running	118
16	11	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	373		running	115
17	16	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	365		running	112
18	25	09	Nelson Oswald	Oswald Racing	Chevrolet	346		engine	109
19	12	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	345		running	106
20	17	8	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Dodge	333		running	103
21	21	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	324		rear end	100
22	18	4	Gary Myers	Gary Myers (Owner)	Chevrolet	321		steering	97
23	19	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	287		rear end	94
24	23	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	208		oil pump	91
25	24	19	Dick May	Gray Racing	Buick	141		engine	88
26	22	29	Cecil Gordon	Hollar Racing	Chevrolet	126		rear end	85
27	26	0	John Kennedy	John Kennedy (Owner)	Ford	112		rear end	82

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Darrell Waltrip	381	95.3%	P2
2	Cale Yarborough	19	4.8%	P1

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