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1978 American 500

Rockingham Speedway · 1978 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Cale Yarborough	1	36	19	1	13	376	492	500.4

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	1	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	492	376	running	185
2	4	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	490		running	170
3	3	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	488	24	running	170
4	12	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	486	11	running	165
5	8	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	486	1	running	160
6	11	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	485	18	running	155
7	5	54	Lennie Pond	Ranier Racing	Chevrolet	485	12	running	151
8	10	2	Dave Marcis	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	484	2	running	147
9	21	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	473		running	138
10	24	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	472		running	134
11	14	92	Dick May	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	471		running	130
12	20	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	468	1	running	132
13	23	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	465		running	124
14	13	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	464	10	running	126
15	26	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	459		running	118
16	28	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	448		running	115
17	27	4	Gary Myers	Gary Myers (Owner)	Chevrolet	444		running	112
18	18	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	444		running	109
19	30	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	441		running	106
20	2	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	423	12	driver sick	108
21	17	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Chevrolet	374	3	broken spindle	105
22	7	27	Buddy Baker	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	324	14	cylinder head	102
23	25	18	Joe Frasson	Frasson Racing	Buick	293		engine	94
24	16	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	284	8	clutch	96
25	6	22	Ricky Rudd	Al Rudd Auto	Chevrolet	262		broken valve	88
26	19	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	215		head gasket	85
27	36	31	Bobby Wawak	Jim Norris (Owner)	Chevrolet	214		engine	82
28	33	95	Junior Miller	Junior Miller Racing	Chevrolet	122		quit	79
29	29	19	Elmo Langley	Gray Racing	Buick	88		engine	76
30	32	87	Johnny Halford	Satterfield Racing	Chevrolet	84		engine	0
31	9	5	Neil Bonnett	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	76		engine	70
32	34	59	Charlie Blanton	Danny Queen (Owner)	Chevrolet	52		ignition	0
33	22	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	34		engine	64
34	31	81	Ferrel Harris	Robert Gee (Owner)	Chevrolet	6		accident	61
35	15	8	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Dodge	4		engine	58
36	35	29	Bill Hollar	Hollar Racing	Chevrolet	0		quit	55

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Cale Yarborough	376	76.4%	P1
2	Darrell Waltrip	24	4.9%	P3
3	Richard Petty	18	3.7%	P6
4	Buddy Baker	14	2.8%	P22
5	Lennie Pond	12	2.4%	P7
6	Donnie Allison	12	2.4%	P20
7	Benny Parsons	11	2.2%	P4
8	James Hylton	10	2.0%	P14
9	David Pearson	8	1.6%	P24
10	Tighe Scott	3	0.6%	P21
11	Dave Marcis	2	0.4%	P8
12	Dick Brooks	1	0.2%	P5
13	J.D. McDuffie	1	0.2%	P12

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