1978 Dixie 500

Atlanta Motor Speedway · 1978 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Donnie Allison	13	40	24	3	8	3	328	499.2

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	13	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	328	3	running	180
2	11	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	328	61	running	175
3	9	2	Dave Marcis	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	328	18	running	170
4	10	98	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	327		running	160
5	5	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Oldsmobile	327	14	running	160
6	2	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	326	3	running	155
7	8	12	Harry Gant	Kennie Childers (Owner)	Chevrolet	325		running	146
8	1	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	323	67	running	147
9	15	22	Ricky Rudd	Al Rudd Auto	Chevrolet	322	11	running	143
10	12	14	Coo Coo Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	320		running	134
11	30	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	319		running	130
12	19	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	317		accident	127
13	18	92	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	317		accident	124
14	16	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	317		running	121
15	40	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	317		running	118
16	27	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	317		running	115
17	22	37	Dave Watson	Dave Watson (Owner)	Chevrolet	316		accident	0
18	28	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	314		running	109
19	24	19	Dick May	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	314		running	106
20	34	8	Ferrel Harris	Robert Gee (Owner)	Chevrolet	314		running	103
21	6	27	Buddy Baker	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	311	151	broken valve	110
22	35	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Oldsmobile	310		running	97
23	21	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	310		running	94
24	25	75	Butch Mock	RahMoc Enterprises	Chevrolet	310		running	0
25	32	84	Skip Manning	Wangerin Racing	Mercury	308		running	88
26	36	81	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Chrysler	303		running	85
27	26	4	Gary Myers	Gary Myers (Owner)	Chevrolet	299		running	82
28	7	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	298		accident	79
29	29	97	Ralph Jones	Ralph Jones (Owner)	Ford	298		running	76
30	17	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	285		engine	73
31	37	74	Tommy Gale	Wawak Racing	Chevrolet	253		engine	70
32	4	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	246		oil line	67
33	38	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	172		cylinder head	64
34	14	5	Neil Bonnett	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	137		accident	61
35	23	48	Al Holbert	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	119		exhaust headers	58
36	31	05	Bruce Hill	Harry Clary (Owner)	Oldsmobile	92		engine	55
37	20	9	Bill Elliott	George Elliott Racing	Oldsmobile	80		broken valve	52
38	33	41	Grant Adcox	Adcox-Kirby	Chevrolet	41		engine	49
39	3	54	Lennie Pond	Ranier Racing	Chevrolet	5		rear end	46
40	39	0	John Kennedy	John Kennedy (Owner)	Ford	0		did not start	43

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Buddy Baker	151	46.0%	P21
2	Cale Yarborough	67	20.4%	P8
3	Richard Petty	61	18.6%	P2
4	Dave Marcis	18	5.5%	P3
5	Benny Parsons	14	4.3%	P5
6	Ricky Rudd	11	3.4%	P9
7	Donnie Allison	3	0.9%	P1
8	Bobby Allison	3	0.9%	P6

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