1978 Atlanta 500

Atlanta Motor Speedway · 1978 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Bobby Allison	4	40	22	1	6	261	328	499.2

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	4	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	328	261	running	185
2	11	2	Dave Marcis	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	327		running	170
3	8	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	327	3	running	170
4	1	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	327	54	running	165
5	6	54	Lennie Pond	Ranier Racing	Chevrolet	327	2	running	160
6	16	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	325		running	150
7	26	41	Grant Adcox	Adcox-Kirby	Chevrolet	319		running	146
8	32	49	Connie Saylor	GC Spencer Racing	Dodge	316		accident	142
9	15	05	Bruce Hill	Harry Clary (Owner)	Oldsmobile	316		running	138
10	23	68	Janet Guthrie	Lynda Ferreri (Owner)	Chevrolet	315		running	134
11	21	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	314		out of fuel	130
12	37	89	Sam Sommers	Vandiver Racing	Chevrolet	314		running	127
13	3	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	314		running	124
14	28	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	313		running	121
15	18	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	313		running	118
16	35	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	312		running	115
17	39	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Chevrolet	311		running	112
18	10	98	Roland Wlodyka	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	311		running	109
19	30	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	310		running	106
20	34	19	Woody Fisher	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	309		running	103
21	2	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	303		steering	100
22	19	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	298		running	97
23	12	92	Skip Manning	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	294		running	94
24	33	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	290		running	91
25	38	8	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Dodge	289		running	88
26	9	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	278		overheating	85
27	5	27	Buddy Baker	M.C. Anderson Racing	Oldsmobile	237		engine	82
28	40	91	Billy McGinnis	Billie Harvey (Owner)	Chevrolet	221		ignition	79
29	22	39	Blackie Wangerin	Wangerin Racing	Mercury	214		push rod	76
30	25	77	Chuck Bown	Johnny Ray (Owner)	Chevrolet	188		engine	73
31	14	48	Al Holbert	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	182		engine	70
32	20	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	163		engine	67
33	31	5	Neil Bonnett	Jim Stacy Racing	Dodge	154	6	engine	69
34	29	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Oldsmobile	152		broken valve	61
35	7	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	146	2	broken valve	63
36	27	75	Butch Hartman	Butch Hartman (Owner)	Chevrolet	121		valve spring	55
37	24	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	97		oil line	52
38	17	9	Bill Elliott	George Elliott Racing	Mercury	66		engine	49
39	13	14	Coo Coo Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	33		engine	46
40	36	00	John A. Utsman	Wellrich Motorsports	Chevrolet	10		oil leak	43

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Bobby Allison	261	79.6%	P1
2	Cale Yarborough	54	16.5%	P4
3	Neil Bonnett	6	1.8%	P33
4	Donnie Allison	3	0.9%	P3
5	Lennie Pond	2	0.6%	P5
6	Darrell Waltrip	2	0.6%	P35

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