1978 Los Angeles Times 500

Ontario Motor Speedway · 1978 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Bobby Allison	2	40	26	3	9	134	200	500

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	2	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	200	134	running	185
2	1	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	200	16	running	175
3	5	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	200	2	running	170
4	8	27	Buddy Baker	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	199		running	160
5	4	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	199	13	accident	160
6	9	54	Lennie Pond	Ranier Racing	Chevrolet	198	1	running	155
7	10	98	Jimmy Insolo	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	198		running	146
8	7	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	197	1	running	147
9	11	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	196		running	138
10	16	51	Jim Thirkettle		Buick	196	1	running	139
11	14	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	196		running	130
12	25	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	195		running	127
13	15	68	Janet Guthrie	Lynda Ferreri (Owner)	Buick	194		running	124
14	13	73	Bill Schmitt	Schmitt Racing	Oldsmobile	192		running	121
15	38	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	190		running	118
16	24	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Oldsmobile	190		running	115
17	17	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	190		running	112
18	27	12	Richard White	Mike White (Owner)	Chevrolet	188	2	engine	114
19	33	8	Ferrel Harris	Robert Gee (Owner)	Chevrolet	188		running	106
20	34	58	Rocky Moran	Rocky Moran (Owner)	Buick	188		running	103
21	36	18	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Chrysler	186		running	100
22	19	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	186		running	97
23	18	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	185		running	94
24	40	4	Gary Myers	Gary Myers (Owner)	Chevrolet	183		running	91
25	26	81	John Borneman	Borneman Motorsports	Chevrolet	181		running	88
26	22	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	178		running	85
27	12	2	Dave Marcis	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	177		running	82
28	35	99	Don Noel	Don Noel (Owner)	Chevrolet	158		broken rod	79
29	20	16	Mel Larson		Buick	138		ignition	76
30	32	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	129		engine	73
31	31	19	Dick May	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	113		running	70
32	39	0	Steve Pfeifer	Michael McCluney (Owner)	Chevrolet	98		dead battery	67
33	37	7	Harry Goularte	Go-Em Racing	Chevrolet	97		engine	64
34	3	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	83	30	engine	66
35	28	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Ford	83		engine	58
36	29	37	Chuck Wahl	DuWayne Wahl (Owner)	Chevrolet	43		overheating	55
37	21	5	Neil Bonnett	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	42		rear suspension	52
38	6	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	28		engine	49
39	23	08	Rick McCray	McCray Motorsports	Chevrolet	15		drive line	46
40	30	32	Ray Elder	Dave Hill (Owner)	Dodge	2		broken rod	43

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Bobby Allison	134	67.0%	P1
2	Richard Petty	30	15.0%	P34
3	Cale Yarborough	16	8.0%	P2
4	Darrell Waltrip	13	6.5%	P5
5	Donnie Allison	2	1.0%	P3
6	Richard White	2	1.0%	P18
7	Lennie Pond	1	0.5%	P6
8	Benny Parsons	1	0.5%	P8
9	Jim Thirkettle	1	0.5%	P10

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