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1978 Rebel 500

Darlington Raceway · 1978 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Benny Parsons	8	36	21	2	9	83	367	501.3

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	8	72	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	367	83	running	180
2	2	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	367	33	running	175
3	5	54	Lennie Pond	Ranier Racing	Oldsmobile	366		running	165
4	7	2	Dave Marcis	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	365	21	running	165
5	10	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	364		running	155
6	9	27	Buddy Baker	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	364	1	running	155
7	25	48	Al Holbert	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	357		running	146
8	12	92	Skip Manning	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	356		running	142
9	15	9	Bill Elliott	George Elliott Racing	Mercury	355		running	138
10	18	22	Ricky Rudd	Al Rudd Auto	Chevrolet	349	2	running	139
11	24	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	342		running	130
12	33	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	337		running	127
13	21	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	334		running	124
14	1	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	324	11	running	126
15	13	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	321	171	engine	128
16	36	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	321		running	115
17	23	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	321		running	112
18	17	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	320		running	109
19	27	39	Blackie Wangerin	Wangerin Racing	Mercury	318		running	106
20	14	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	286		rear end	103
21	32	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	286		running	100
22	30	01	Earle Canavan	Canavan Racing	Dodge	280		running	97
23	3	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	268	40	broken spindle	99
24	34	18	Joe Frasson	Frasson Racing	Chevrolet	247		engine	91
25	28	41	Grant Adcox	Adcox-Kirby	Chevrolet	237		engine	88
26	35	61	Joe Mihalic	Jim Norris (Owner)	Chevrolet	222		broken valve	85
27	19	89	Sam Sommers	Vandiver Racing	Chevrolet	198		clutch	0
28	16	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	187		running	79
29	6	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	181	5	broken valve	81
30	20	77	Chuck Bown	Johnny Ray (Owner)	Chevrolet	108		accident	73
31	31	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	104		accident	70
32	11	5	Neil Bonnett	Jim Stacy Racing	Dodge	71		rear end	67
33	29	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Chevrolet	69		broken valve	64
34	22	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Chevrolet	18		accident	61
35	4	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	9		accident	58
36	26	19	Dick May	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	9		ignition	55

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Cale Yarborough	171	46.6%	P15
2	Benny Parsons	83	22.6%	P1
3	Donnie Allison	40	10.9%	P23
4	Darrell Waltrip	33	9.0%	P2
5	Dave Marcis	21	5.7%	P4
6	Bobby Allison	11	3.0%	P14
7	David Pearson	5	1.4%	P29
8	Ricky Rudd	2	0.5%	P10
9	Buddy Baker	1	0.3%	P6

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